US STOCKS SNAPSHOT-Wall St opens flat on mixed earnings
NEW YORK (Frankfurt: HX6.F - news) , April 17 (Reuters) - Wall Street opened flat on Thursday, following three days of gains, as underwhelming results from tech giants Google (NasdaqGS: GOOG - news) and IBM (NYSE: IBM - news) were offset by upbeat quarterly numbers from the likes of Morgan Stanley (Berlin: DWD.BE - news) , Goldman Sachs and General Electric (Swiss: GE.SW - news) .
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 24.66 points or 0.15 percent, to 16,400.19, the S&P 500 lost 1.54 points or 0.08 percent, to 1,860.77 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 13.557 points or 0.33 percent, to 4,072.668. (Reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by James Dalgleish)