By Ryan Vlastelica
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks were poised to open slightly lower on Wednesday, with investors finding few incentives to jump back into the market even after a recent string of weakness.
The S&P 500 fell sharply on Tuesday, its biggest one-day decline since Aug. 5, which took it below its 14-day moving average for the first time on a closing basis since Aug. 12. A protracted hold under the key technical level could be a harbinger of further losses ahead.
Tuesday's weakness came on concerns the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates sooner than some investors had expected, worries that took the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note
The S&P hasn't had a correction - defined as a 10 percent drop from a peak - since 2012. In the interim, investors have used any market decline as a buying opportunity.
The S&P closed at a record Friday and remains less than 1 percent from that level despite falling in five of the past six sessions.
Futures snapshot at 9:20 a.m. (1320 GMT):
* S&P 500 e-minis
* Nasdaq 100 e-minis
* Dow e-minis <1YMc1> fell 20 points, or 0.12 percent, with 32,006 contracts changing hands.
(Editing by Bernadette Baum)
