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Wall St dips at open; on track for weekly drop

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Reuters NEW YORK

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks opened slightly lower on Friday, after the largest decline on Wall Street in nearly two months a day earlier set major indexes on course for their first back-to-back weekly declines since late June.

The Dow Jones industrial average was down 21.35 points, or 0.14 percent, at 15,090.84. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 1.62 points, or 0.10 percent, at 1,659.70. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 2.18 points, or 0.06 percent, at 3,603.93.

(Reporting by Caroline Valetkevitch; Editing by Bernadette Baum)

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First Published: Aug 16 2013 | 7:04 PM IST

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