Wall Street flat as jobs data, rate hike loom

REUTERS - U.S. stocks opened little changed on Thursday as investors refrained from making big bets ahead of Friday's jobs data that could sharply move the needle on an interest rate hike next week.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 6.48 points, or 0.03 percent, at 20,849.25, the S&P 500 was down 0.34 points, or 0.014 percent, at 2,362.64 and the Nasdaq composite was down 3.75 points, or 0.06 percent, at 5,833.81.

(Reporting by Yashaswini Swamynathan in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)