• The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 177.23 points, or 0.67 percent, to 26,439.48, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 19.34 points, or 0.67 percent, to 2,853.53 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 39.27 points, or 0.52 percent, to 7,466.51.
The Dow and S&P 500 had their biggest daily percentage declines since Sept. 5. The S&P 500 still is up 6.7 percent since the end of 2017.
Wall Street pulled back from record highs on Monday, with the Dow and the S&P 500 indexes marking their biggest one-day percentage declines in about five months, weighed down by a slide in Apple shares.
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• Asian indexes traded moderately lower early on Tuesday, tracking declines seen on Wall Street in the previous session.
Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 index traded lower by 0.51 percent in the early going. Despite the broader decline, several automakers still picked up gains in the morning: Toyota rose 0.65 percent, Honda gained 0.63 percent and Suzuki Motors held just above the flat line.
Technology names, however, were mostly lower, with heavyweight SoftBank Group declining 0.48 percent.
Reference: Reuters, CNBC
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