Early Tuesday Trading

S&P 500 is trading with moderate losses at 1183.62, down 3.82 points. The selling is broad based though. All the S&P 500 sectors are trading in red. The worst performing sectors are technology and materials, down, 0.51% and 0.49% respectively.

Meanwhile Crude Oil and Gold has eased back from their lows of the day. Crude oil actually managed to pull itself into the green territory, trading at $86.68 a barrel, up 0.07%. Gold, however, still is trading with losses, down $4.30 at $1125.60 an ounce.

The declining issues outpace the advancing issues at S&P 500 today. 102 advances, 387 declines and 7 unchanged.