US stocks open lower. Nasdaq hit the hardest.

The major US stock indices are opening lower with the Nasdaq index trading down near 1% on the day.

A snapshot of the market 5 minutes into the open :

• Dow industrial average -200.03 points or 0.45% at 43125.77
• S&P -43.20 points or -0.72% at 5994.39
• Nasdaq -200.68 points or -1.00% at 19819.68
• Russell 2000 -14.32 points or -0.63% at 2265.86

Some losers today:

• Nvidia, -1.73%
• Microsoft, -1.51%
• Amazon, -1.38
• Meta, -1.12% %
• Alphabet, -1.12%
• Apple -1.79%
• Apple, -0.79%
• Tesla, -2.22%
• Netflix, -2.25%

This article was written by Greg Michalowski at www.forexlive.com.