NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell at the open on Wednesday, despite encouraging job market data, as weak data from China and a political crisis in Portugal weighed on sentiment.
The Dow Jones industrial average ell 54.99 points or 0.37 percent, to 14,877.42, the S&P 500 lost 8.64 points or 0.54 percent, to 1,605.44 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 13.35 points, or 0.39 percent, to 3,420.04.
(Reporting by Rodrigo Campos; Editing by Bernadette Baum)