Market Snapshot: Dow slips as tech stocks stumble early Friday as focus shifts to China-U.S. tensions and fiscal stimulus bill languishes

U.S. stocks head lower Friday, with the technology-laden Nasdaq set to notch its first back-to-back decline since mid-May as investors turn their attention to a flare-up in Sino-American animosities while Republican Senators leave Washington for the weekend without obvious progress on another fiscal stimulus bill.

U.S. stocks head lower Friday, with the technology-laden Nasdaq set to notch its first back-to-back decline since mid-May as investors turn their attention to a flare-up in Sino-American animosities while Republican Senators leave Washington for the weekend without obvious progress on another fiscal stimulus bill.