A down day to close out the week on Wall Street, with some pressure tied to reports of another breakdown in trade discussions between the U.S. and China. The Dow Jones Industrials dropped 98 points, the tech-heavy Nasdaq slid 81, and the S&P 500 fell 16.
Oil futures eased ahead of a weekend meeting in Saudi Arabia at which OPEC and its allies will debate a potential increase in crude output. On the New York Merc, June crude slipped 11 cents to settle at $62.76 a barrel.
Lockheed Martin has broken ground on a new strike-missile production facility in Pike County, Alabama - a 225,000 square foot facility.
It’s a desire of a lot of jobholders: not having to go into the office to work. A new survey of a thousand job candidates found just over 7 in 10 of them saying they would even take less pay in order to work remotely.