U.S. shares closed lower on Tuesday after the benchmark index Standard & Poor's 500 recorded its record high on yesterday's session and as investors awaited an outcome of the next week's policy meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve resulting in a possible scale-back of bond purchasing. The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 0.33% to 15,973.13, the S&P 500 Index fell 0.32% to 1,802.62 and the Nasdaq Composite Index declined 0.2% to 4,060.49.