July 19 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes slipped

at the open on Friday as investors continued to move away from

heavily weighted chip and megacap tech stocks, while assessing

the impact of a sweeping global tech outage.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 72.67 points,

or 0.18%, at the open to 40,592.35.

The S&P 500 opened lower by 1.22 points, or 0.02%, at

5,543.37, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 35.63

points, or 0.20%, to 17,835.59 at the opening bell.

(Reporting by Lisa Mattackal in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika

Syamnath)