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Stocks briefly cut gains after grim GM sales


    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks pared gains and the Dow industrials briefly turned negative on Tuesday after General Motors Corp posted a 41 percent slide in November auto sales, compounding investors' worries about the embattled U.S. auto industry.

    The Dow Jones industrial average was up 34.72 points, or 0.43 percent, at 8,183.81. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 6.34 points, or 0.78 percent, at 822.55. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 11.08 points, or 0.79 percent, at 1,409.15.

    Earlier, indexes had risen by more than 3 percent.

    (Reporting by Ellis Mnyandu; Editing by Leslie Adler and Kenneth Barry)