us stocks are paring their losses tuesday afternoon after the dow jones industrial average briefly dropped below 29000 for the first time in nearly two years earlier the nasdaq composite comp turned higher trading up 30 points or 03 to 10832 the sp 500 spx was down 6 points or 02 at 3650 the dow djia was down 89 points or 03 at 29165 after falling 300 points earlier