U.S. stocks traded lower this morning, with the Dow Jones index falling more than 500 points on Friday.

Following the market opening Friday, the Dow traded down 0.98% to 52,037.01 while the NASDAQ dipped 1.77% to 25,422.98 The S&P 500 also fell, dropping, 1.15% to 7,447.23.

Leading and Lagging Sectors

Energy shares jumped by 1.6% on Friday.

In trading on Friday, communication services stocks fell by 2.9%.