Wall Street markets started trading with losses on Friday amid lingering concerns about slowing global economic growth as well as uncertainty in US-China trade relations. Yesterday, President Donald Trump said he would not meet Chinese President Xi Jinping before the March 1 deadline for a comprehensive trade deal.

He said earlier that the deal could not be concluded before the two settled some important issues. At the same time, both the European Commission and the European Central Bank said that the global economy is slowing, but is expected to recover later this year.

Trump attacks the media for not covering the intelligence report about the lack of collusion with Russia in the elections

 US President Donald Trump went on Twitter on Friday to blow up major media outlets for not commenting on comments by Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Richard Burr that the commission found no evidence of complicity between Trump and Russia.

"The mainstream media refused to cover the fact that the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee is very important, after two years of intensive study and access to intelligence they could not get, they just stated that they found no conflict between Trump and Russia: Giant and illegal, developed long before the election itself, but used as a justification by Democrats why Hillary Clinton lost the election: One day the disturbing news media will turn out to be honest and reports that Donald J. Trump was indeed a great candidate! "

Earlier, Bear said in an interview with CBS that the commission had "nothing to suggest complicity by Trump and Russia" and said he hoped the investigation would be closed soon. "We know we have reached the bottom of the barrel because there are no new questions," Bohr stressed.

US Stocks Open

• The Dow Jones Industrial Average more than 127 points initially, or 0.51%. Intel and ExxonMobil led the losses and fell 1.32% and 1.25%, respectively.
• The Nasdaq 100 was down 0.79%, with the health care distributor down 5.07%.
• While the Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell 0.44%. Goodyear was the worst performer, down 7.35%.

The euro was steady against the dollar, reaching $ 1.13447 at 9:32 am Eastern Time.