U.S. stocks open lower after ADP jobs report

U.S. stocks opened lower after a report showing growth in private-sector jobs in March was weaker than expected. Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+0.02%
was about flat soon after the opening bell, while the S&P 500
SPX,
-0.61%
fell 0.1% and the Nasdaq Composite
COMP,
-1.53%
slipped 0.4%, according to FactSet data, at last check. U.S. private payrolls climbed 145,000 in March, according to ADP’s national employment report released Wednesday. That’s below the gain of 210,000 private-sector jobs that economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had forecast.