Dow drops 250 points, gives up earlier 131-point gain
Source: CNBC
Stocks fell on Tuesday, giving up earlier gains, as investors were left disappointed with the latest batch of earnings while interest rates jumped to levels not seen in years.
The Dow Jones industrial average traded 257 points lower as of 12:06 p.m. ET, with 3M as the worst-performing stock in the index. The S&P 500 fell 0.6 percent, with consumer staples and technology sliding. The Nasdaq composite declined 1 percent.
Before the bell, 3M reported quarterly earnings that met analyst expectations, but the stock dropped about 8 percent after the company lowered its full-year profit forecast. Alphabet, meanwhile, topped bottom-line estimates but its stock declined more than 3 percent.
Caterpillar also erased earlier gains, trading 3 percent lower.
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Apple looking weak - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix.
We had dotcoms crash the economy in the '90's.
THESE are 'too big to fail' "dotcoms!" 
because companies are flush with extra cash from tax cuts, and exuberance from deregulation, that they got tired of winning.
Why is Hillary doing this to our stock market? 
