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com slash CME group. U.S. Stock Index futures are lower, mirroring a slide in oil prices

and an indication the S&P 500 will pair a relief rally that put it on track for the

best week since November. We check the markets every 15 minutes throughout the

trading day on Bloomberg. S&P E-Mani futures down 12 points, Dowi many futures down 94 and NASDAQ E-Mani Futures down 27,

Dax and Germany's down 9 tenths per set.

Ten-year Treasury down 730 seconds.

The yield 1.76 percent, yield on the 2 year 0.75 percent.

Nymex Crud Oil down about 4 percent.

It's down a $1.21 to $29.56 cents a barrel.

And Comex gold is little changed at 1226-60 an ounce the euro a dollar

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