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U.S. stocks are lower following two weeks of gains for the S&P 500 index before Central Bank

meetings this week in the U.S. and Japan as an investors weight earnings report to gauge

corporate health. We check the markets every 15 minutes throughout

the trading day on Bloomberg. The S&P 500 down about 4 tenths percent on 7 points to 2083.

Dow Jones industrial average down half percent or 85 points to 17,918.

The NASDAQ's down a tenth of a percent or five points to 4,900.

Ten-year Treasury down 230 seconds, the yield 1.89 percent, the yield on the 2-year 0.82 percent.

9-X crude oil up 3.10 percent or 13 cents to 4,384 a barrel. Comex gold is up 8.10 or $9.70 at 1239 80 an ounce. The euro, at $12.59, the yen 1.11.07.

Valiant Pharmaceuticals hiring Paragos former CEO Joseph Papa is its new executive, its new chief executive and Chairman,

tasked with turning around it in battle Drugmaker that has faced multiple setbacks over the past month and

Valiant pharmaceutical shares are up three and a half percent this morning.

Gennett, the publisher of USA Today, made a $815 million unsolicited bid for Tribune publishing seeking to add the Los Angeles Times

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