US STOCKS SNAPSHOT-Wall St falls after quarterly results disappoint
July 21 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday in the wake of results from IBM (NYSE: IBM - news) and United Technologies that dampened early optimism over earnings season as investors awaited quarterly profits from tech giants including Apple (NasdaqGS: AAPL - news) and Microsoft (NasdaqGS: MSFT - news) .
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 179.95 points, or 0.99 percent, to 17,920.46, the S&P 500 lost 9.08 points, or 0.43 percent, to 2,119.2 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 10.74 points, or 0.21 percent, to 5,208.12. (Reporting By Sinead Carew; Editing by Nick Zieminski)