us stocks ended lower tuesday as investors awaited a key inflation reading and fretted over the debt ceiling while regional bank stocks saw renewed pressure the april consumerprice index reading is due wednesday morning while a meeting between president joe bidenand congressional leaders late tuesday afternoon wasn’t expected to produce a breakthrough on the debt ceiling the spdr sp regional banking etf kre fell 04 the dow jones industrial average djia fell around 57 points or 02 to end near 33562 according to preliminary figures while the sp 500 spx declined 05 and the nasdaq composite comp lost