NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks fell slightly on Tuesday in another quiet day on Wall Street as hesitant investors remained on the sidelines as a slow summer winds down.
Shares of the candy company Hershey plunged after it walked away from a merger proposal, and Apple slipped after the company was hit with a large tax bill in Europe.
Investors continue to wait to see whether the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates later this year. The next key piece of data is coming on Friday with the August jobs report.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 48.69 points, or 0.3 percent, to 18,454.30. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 4.26 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,176.12 and the Nasdaq composite fell 9.34 points, or 0.2 percent, to 5,222.99.
Trading was extremely light once again, with roughly 2.95 billion shares changing hands on the New York Stock Exchange.
seventh-slowest day of the year. Monday was the slowest trading day of 2016.