India, Aug. 15 -- After ending yesterday's choppy trading session little changed, stocks have moved mostly lower during trading on Friday. The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 have moved moderately lower, although the narrower Dow is bucking the downtrend.
Currently, the major averages are turning in mixed performance. While the Dow is up 99.28 points or 0.2 percent at 45,010.54, the S&P 500 is down 16.75 points or 0.3 percent at 6,451.79 and the Nasdaq is down 96.28 points or 0.4 percent at 21,614.39.
The weakness in the broader markets comes following the release of mixed batch of U.S. economic data, which has led to some uncertainty about the outlook for the economy and interest rates.
While the Commerce Department released a report showing ret...