US: Wall St falls at open as Amazon weighs

THE NASDAQ led Wall Street’s main indexes lower on Friday as disappointing quarterly report from Amazon pressured growth stocks, pushing the tech-heavy index toward its worst month since 2008.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 129.4 points, or 0.38 per cent, at the open to 33787.01.

The S&P 500 fell 33.7 points, or 0.79 per cent, at the open to 4253.75​, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 161.1 points, or 1.25 per cent, to 12710.416 at the opening bell. REUTERS