wall street stocks were mostly lower early tuesday following two strong sessions as markets digested a trove of mixed earnings from industrial heavyweights the results included a drop in profits from conglomerate 3m pointing to weak demand in consumerfacing markets and an upbeat report from defense contractor raytheon technologies which has benefited from the comeback in its aerospace business about 25 minutes into trading the dow jones industrial average was down 03 percent at 3354014 the broadbased sp 500 slipped 02 percent to 401220 while the techrich nasdaq composite index added 01 percent at 1136984 tuesdays early losses suggest nervousness that the stock market has gotten ahead of itself and is due for a pullback said briefingcom analyst patrick ohare but he added we cant put an eventual rebound try past the market which has defied bearish expectations all year bouncing back from bouts of weakness catalyzed by the hope that the economy will achieve a soft landing trading on a handful of large stocks including visa and wells fargo was briefly halted early tuesday due to an apparent technology glitch but the stocks were trading normally soon after the open