Updated from 4:10 p.m. EDT
Stocks in the U.S. finished in the red Tuesday as traders dealt with poor earnings forecasts just days before a flood of quarterly reports is set to roll in.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off its low for the day but still surrendered 35.91 points, or 0.3%, to 12,576.52. The S&P 500 shed 7.01 points, or 0.5%, to 1365.53, and the Nasdaq Composite was down 16.07 points, or 0.7%, to 2348.76.
"All things considered, we're holding up pretty amazingly," said Charles Rotblut, senior market analyst with Zacks Investment Research. "I think a lot of people are trying to trade on the assumption that the bad news is already reflected in the market." ...
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