US stocks on Friday opened slightly lower as investors weighed a weaker-than-expected March employment data and President Donald Trump's late-Thursday airstrike against Syria, MarketWatch reports.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 19 points, or 0.1%, at 20,646, while the S&P 500 index declined 2 points, or 0.1%, at 2,355, while the Nasdaq Composite Index opened off 7 points, or 0.1%, at 5,871.