U.S. stocks opened barely changed and were swinging between small gains and losses Friday. The main indexes looked on track for another choppy day of trading with a weekly gain at stake. The S&P 500 opened little changed at 2,082, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average also barely moved 3 points, or less than 0.1%, higher at 17,413. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down marginally, less than a point, at 5,032. Before markets opened, investors shrugged off a readings of U.S. producer prices in July, which were up 0.2%, better than economists’ estimates, and a solid industrial production report, which showed industrial output climbed 0.6% in July.
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