The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened modestly lower on Tuesday, weighed by a sharp drop in shares of UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. . UnitedHealth shares slid as Republicans scrapped a bill to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, while Goldman was in decline after the investment bank reported second-quarter earnings that showed a 40% drop in its bread-and-butter trading business. The price-weighted Dow was seeing UnitedHealth and Goldman exact a roughly 50-point toll. Overall, the Dow was down 0.6% at 21,487, the S&P 500 index was slumping 0.3% at 2,451, while the Nasdaq Composite Index was 0.1% lower at at 6,303.
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