Nasdaq Leads U.S. Stock Losses With 0.46% Drop at Thursday Open

U.S. stocks opened lower Thursday, Oct. 29, with the Nasdaq posting the steepest decline among the three major indexes in the opening snapshot.

The Nasdaq fell 0.46%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.44%, while the S&P 500 slipped 0.16%. The Nasdaq's decline exceeded the Dow's by 0.02 percentage point and the S&P 500's by 0.30 percentage point.