U.S. stocks fell Tuesday after weak earnings reports from IBM and UTX dragged down the Dow Jones. The Dow declined 181.12 points, or 1%, to 17919.29.
The S&P slipped 9.07 points, or 0.4%, to 2119.21, while the Nasdaq lost only 0.2%, to 5208.12.
It looked worse than it was, because most of the decline was due to those two stocks. YHOO and MSFT reported after the close today and both are down just slightly in after market trade.