U.S. stocks closed mixed Tuesday, stabilizing after a sharply lower start to the year. In U.S. economic news, the NAHB housing index held steady at 60 in January, but from a downwardly revised December reading and off a recent high of 65 in October. In international economic news, China reported overnight that gross domestic product (GDP) of 6.9 percent for 2015, the slowest pace since 1990. Fourth-quarter GDP growth was 6.8 percent year-over-year, a touch below expectations. December retail sales showed 11.1 percent growth from the same period last year, while industrial production grew 5.9 percent. Both were mildly below estimates. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut its global economic growth forecast for 2016 to 3.4 percent, down from prior forecasts but up from a 3.1 percent forecast for 2015. The dollar traded flat against major world currencies. Light sweet crude oil for February delivery lost 96 cents to $28.46 a barrel, its lowest since September 2003, on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while gold futures fell $1.60 to $1,089.10 an ounce. The Dow Jones industrial average declined 70, 0.44 percent, to 15,918. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index dropped 14, or 0.74 percent, to 1,866. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index lost 53, or 1.18 percent, to 4,435.