Wall Street opens mixed, while the Dow Jones fell a slight 0.03%.

NEW YORK, New York — The New York Stock Exchange opened in mixed territory Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (IINE) down 0.03 percent at 40,079 after a three-day winning streak as investors weighed earnings from technology companies and trade war fears.

Ten minutes after the bell rang, the S&P 500 index rose 0.19% to 5,495 points; while the Nasdaq technology index also posted gains of 0.31% to 17,218 points.

However, half an hour later, the Dow Jones had suffered losses of 0.55%, while the other two indices, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq, reversed their losses and began to fall by around 0.3% and 0.15%, respectively, in a volatile start to the day in which traders were constantly in flux.

Investor confidence was shaken on Friday by US President Donald Trump 's comments in Time magazine that he would consider it a "total victory" if the US imposed tariffs of 20% to 50% on foreign countries within a year.

The previous day, at the close of trading, Alphabet ( Google 's parent company) released its first-quarter results, which reported higher-than-expected profits. After the bell, the stock market was up around 2.8%.

On the other hand, Intel offered a disappointing outlook for investors and revealed that it plans to cut operating and capital expenditures , sending its stock down more than 8% in early trading.

Among the 30 Dow Jones companies, Boeing (1.82%), McDonald's (1.2%) and Nvidia (0.88%) led the gains, compared to the largest declines recorded at that time by Nike (-1.72%) and Merck (-1.66%).

The largest gains were in communications (1.39%) and non-essential goods (0.47%), while the largest losses were in healthcare (-0.54%) and raw materials (-0.53%).

In the commodities market, Texas oil fell 0.8% to $62.29 a barrel after the stock market opened.

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