Wall St opens lower on US-China tensions; bank results pour in

Wall Street's main indexes opened lower on Tuesday with renewed trade tensions between U.S. and China souring sentiment, while investors also parsed results from big U.S. banks that kicked off the third-quarter earnings season.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 195.7 points, or 0.42 percent, at the open to 45,871.89. The S&P 500 fell 52.2 points, or 0.78 percent, to 6,602.49 , while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 306.6 points, or 1.35 percent, to 22,388.043.

REUTERS