us stocks opened down monday following the threeday holiday weekend with investors resuming trade after us stock exchanges closed for good friday the dow jones industrial average djia fell 03 soon after the opening bell while the sp 500 spx fell 06 and the nasdaq composite comp dropped 09 according to factset data at last check investors had the weekend to digest the jobs report that landed on good friday with the bureau of labor statistics saying that day that the us economy added 236000 jobs in march while the unemployment rate dipped to 35 from 36 in february meanwhile investors are looking ahead to us inflation data from the consumerprice index that will be released on wednesday