US stocks opened little changed on Friday after data showed that industrial production fell for the fifth straight month.
At 9:32 a.m. ET the Dow Jones industrial average was up 7.47 points, or 0.04 percent, at 18,259.71, the S&P 500 was up 1.98 points, or 0.09 percent, at 2,123.08 and the Nasdaq Composite was up 9.52 points, or 0.19 percent, at 5,060.32.