NEW YORK—Stocks shed early gains and fell in afternoon trading on Wall Street Tuesday as the market remains shaky a day after a broad sell-off.
The S&P 500 fell 0.8 percent as of 12:31 p.m. Eastern. The benchmark index was up as much as 1.9 percent in early trading. It slumped 3.2 percent a day earlier, hitting its lowest level in more than a year.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 328 points, or 1 percent, to 31,913 and the Nasdaq fell 0.3 percent.
Big technology stocks, which have been swinging sharply both up and down recently, made slight gains and helped counter losses elsewhere in the market. Apple rose 0.7 percent and Microsoft rose 0.9 percent.
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