Wall St slips at open as investors assess key jobs data

Dec ⁠16 (Reuters) - Wall ⁠Street's ‍main indexes slipped at ‍the open on ​Tuesday after data ​broadly signaled a cooling U.S. economy, paving the way ​for more monetary policy easing ​by the Federal Reserve next ‌year.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell ​36.4 points, ⁠or 0.08%, to 48,380.17 at ‌the open. The S&P 500 ‌fell 16.4 points, or ‌0.24%, to 6,800.12​, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped ‍75.6 points, or 0.33%, to ⁠22,981.819.

(Reporting by Johann M Cherian in Bengaluru; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar)

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