NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are slipping after the latest hotter-than-forecast reading on the economy raised more worries about inflation and interest rates staying high. The S&P 500 was 0.3% lower early Tuesday and on track for its first losing month in the last six. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 196 points, and the Nasdaq composite was down 0.4%. Stocks have struggled as traders largely gave up on hopes for multiple interest rate cuts this year. Reports showing inflation remains stubbornly high have sent Treasury yields climbing. Yields rose again after a report showed U.S. workers won bigger gains in wages and benefits than expected in the first quarter.

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Wall Street pointed modestly lower early Tuesday as investors digested more corporate earnings reports while keeping their eyes on potentially market-moving reports later this week.

Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 each ticked back 0.1% before the bell.

McDonald's slipped less than 1% in premarket after the burger chain reported strong U.S. sales, but fell short of Wall Street profit targets. International sales fell as customers across the Middle East and in Muslim-majority markets have been boycotting McDonald’s for months over its perceived support for Israel.

3M jumped 7.6% after its sales and profit came in ahead of Wall Street forecasts. The maker of industrial, safety and consumer goods also issued full-year sales and profit guidance reflecting the spinoff of its Solventum health care business earlier in April.

Europe's largest bank, HSBC, rose 4.2% after it announced that CEO Noel Quinn plans to retire after serving nearly five years in the post. Quinn oversaw the sale of HSBC's Canada and Argentina operations and oversaw the bank’s strongest returns in more than a decade.

Coca-Cola shares barely budged after the beverage giant topped analysts' sales and profit forecasts.

Amazon and Starbucks report their latest financial results after the bell Tuesday.

Markets are also anxiously awaiting the U.S. Federal Reserve's latest policy decision on Wednesday.

Reports of stubbornly high inflation have traders expecting fewer interest rate cuts this year. The U.S. central bank's main interest rate is at its highest level since 2001. Fed Chair Jerome Powell could offer more color in his news conference following the central bank’s decision.

Also on investors’ minds is the jobs report hitting Wall Street on Friday that could show hiring by U.S. employers cooled in April and that growth in workers’ wages held relatively steady.

The hope on Wall Street is that the job market will remain strong enough to help the economy avoid a recession but not so strong that it feeds upward pressure into inflation.

In Europe at midday, France's CAC 40 edged down 0.1% in early trading, while Germany's DAX fell 0.4%. Britain's FTSE 100 added 0.5%.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 jumped 1.2% to finish at 38,405.66, coming back from a national holiday. Sydney's S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.4% to 7,664.10. South Korea's Kospi added 0.2% to 2,692.06. Hong Kong's Hang Seng edged up 0.1% to 17,763.03, while the Shanghai Composite fell 0.3% to 3,104.82.

In Japan, the government reported stronger than expected gains in industrial production with a seasonally adjusted 3.8% rise in March from the previous month.

“Weak manufacturing weighed on growth in the first quarter of the year, but we think that consumption is likely to improve on the back of healthy labor market,” said Min Joo Kang, senior economist at ING.

In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude added 25 cents to $82.88 a barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, rose 29 cents to $87.49 a barrel.

In currency trading, the U.S. dollar rose to 156.91 Japanese yen from 156.28 yen. The euro cost $1.0721, down a touch from $1.0725.

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