us stocks were trading down heading toward the closing bell friday with all three major benchmarks on track for weekly losses as investors considered the latest wholesale inflation data ahead of the federal reserves policy meeting next week the dow jones industrial average djia was down 04 while the sp 500 spx slipped 02 and the technologyheavy nasdaq composite comp dipped 01 according to factset data at last check all three benchmarks were on pace to snap two straight weeks of gains