us stocks are paring their losses as the final hour of trading begins on tuesday although the dow jones industrial average remained down more than 400 points on the day the bluechip gauge djia was off 413 points or 13 at 30615 leaving it within 1000 points of its 52week low from midjune the sp 500 spx was down 50 points or 13 at 3849 the nasdaq composite comp retreated 120 points or 11 to 11414 investors have blamed tuesdays market ructions on rising treasury yields especially on the 2year yield sbxtmubmusd02y which is approaching 4 and the 10year yield sbxtmubmusd10y which has surpassed 350 the difference between the two yields known as the yield curve has moved further into negative territory looking ahead investors are waiting on the federal reserve to announce its next interestrate hike on wednesday