 "A Wall Street sign is pictured in the rain outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York.")
US stocks opened lower on Tuesday after weak Chinese trade data reinforced views that the world's second-largest economy was losing momentum.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 76.7 points, or 0.45%, to 17,055.16, the S&P 500 lost 8.37 points, or 0.41%, to 2,009.09 and the Nasdaq composite index dropped 28.40 points, or 0.59%, to 4,810.24.
