Stocks opened lower Friday, weighed down as shares of Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. lost ground after quarterly updates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 90 points, or 0.3%, at 33,826,leaving it on track for a 2.5% monthly fall. The S&P 500 was down 0.7% at 4,256, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.7% to 12,784. The S&P 500 was on track for a 6% fall in April, while the Nasdaq was off 10%, putting the indexes on track for their biggest monthly falls since March 2020.
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