US stocks edge lower at end of rollercoaster week
<p>New York: US stocks slipped after markets opened on Friday as traders appeared wary at the end of a rocky week that began with a dramatic sell-off.</p> <p>Around 15 minutes into trading, all three major indices on Wall Street were trading lower, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average leading the mild decline, falling 0.3 percent to 39,313.65.</p> <p>The broad-based S&P 500 was down 0.2 percent at 5,308.59, while the tech-rich Nasdaq slipped 0.3 percent to 16,616.52.</p> <p>"The stock market could settle this week roughly unchanged with the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 sitting on declines of 0.5% and 0.7%, respectively, since last Friday," Briefing.com analysts wrote in a blog post before markets opened.</p> <p>They pointed to a pre-open gain in the so-called "mega caps" worth at least $200 billion, and chipmakers.</p> <p>Among individual stocks, Paramount Global was trading 2.3 percent higher after announcing it would cut around 15 percent of its workforce as part of a cost-cutting plan.
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