At 9:54 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 80.70 points, or 0.24%, at 33,515.64, the S&P 500 was down 12.07 points, or 0.31%, at 3,929.19, and the Nasdaq Composite was down 70.86 points, or 0.64%, at 10,944.03.