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 <.DJI> was up 34.72 points, or 0.43 percent, at 8,183.81. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> was up 6.34 points, or 0.78 percent, at 822.55. The Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> 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)
