Wall Street inches ahead, Dow Jones adds 10 points

NEW YORK, New York - U.S. stocks were directionless Tuesday as investors had little to digest ahead of next week's Federal Reserve monetary meeting, and release of the latest CPI reading.

"It really seems like we're kind of in a holding pattern," Jeff Kilburg, CEO of KKM Financial told CNBC Tuesday. "With the Fed next week, people are kind of taking a breath."

Despite the uneasiness in the markets, there is