Wall Street opens lower.

I'm Nancy Marshall Genser with the Marketplace Minute.

All three major index is slid at the open.

Stocks have bounced around this week as traders reacted to mixed economic news.

Yesterday we got higher than expected wholesale inflation numbers

while retail sales picked up.

The Energy Department is planning to loan more than $2 billion to a Canadian mining company.

The money would help finance construction of a new lithium processing plant in Nevada.

The department says a proposed mine at the site would produce enough lithium for batteries to power as

many as 800,000 electric vehicles per year.

Honda and Nissan announced today they're thinking about joining forces to develop electric vehicles

and AI software for cars. They're doing a feasibility study. And Adobe shares

tumbled when its predictions for second quarter earnings came in lower than expected,

Adobe makes Photoshop, audition, and acrobat editing software.

I'm Nancy Marshall Genser with the marketplace minute.