Wall Street stocks opened slightly lower Thursday following another high US jobless claims report and amid rising US-China friction that has sharpened concerns about another trade war. About five minutes into trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.1 percent at 24,559.23. The broad-based S&P 500 also slipped 0.1 percent to 2,969.03, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index dipped less than 0.1 percent at 9,372.84. jmb/hs