Traders exit the 11 Wall St. door of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, New York, U.S., June 11, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
(Reuters) – U.S. stocks fell at the open on Thursday as an uptick in COVID-19 infections in the United States threatened to upend bets of a swift economic recovery, with data showing weekly jobless claims remained elevated amid a second wave of layoffs.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 103.16 points, or 0.39%, at the open to 26,016.45. The S&P 500 .SPX opened lower by 11.85 points, or 0.38%, at 3,101.64, while the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 18.06 points, or 0.18%, to 9,892.48 at the opening bell.
Reporting by Devik Jain in Bengaluru
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