US stocks were little changed at open on Friday after the Dow and S&P 500 ended lower a day earlier, with investors wary of weakness in small-cap names.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 5.59 points, or 0.03%, to 16,441.22, the S&P 500 lost 0.25 points, or 0.01%, to 1,870.6 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.25 points, or 0.01%, to 4,069.04.