June 18 (Reuters) - Wall Street indexes opened flat to slightly higher on Tuesday following soft retail sales data, with commentary awaited from a slew of Federal Reserve officials later in the day.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.02 points at the open to 38,779.12.

The S&P 500 opened higher by 2.92 points, or 0.05%, at 5,476.15, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.26 points, to 17,856.76 at the opening bell. (Reporting by Lisa Pauline Mattackal in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)