Wall Street slides at open on Trump tariffs, Amazon results, soft payrolls

Wall Street opened sharply lower on Friday as new U.S. tariffs on dozens of trading partners and Amazon's unimpressive earnings weighed on sentiment, while a weaker payrolls report added to risk aversion.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJI fell 349.2 points, or 0.79%, at the open to 43781.77. The S&P 500 SPX fell 52.1 points, or 0.82%, to 6287.28​, while the Nasdaq Composite IXIC dropped 291.8 points, or 1.38%, to 20830.643.