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Good morning everyone at 730 on Wall Street.

Hi Michael McKee, along with Tom King, we're two hours away from the start of trading a kind of quiet day on the screens today.

Not a whole lot of news.

This in from Deere just a few moments ago.

They're lowering their fiscal full year profit outlook, reduced sales of tractors and combines, they say.

Full year net income will be about $1.2 billion that's down from 1.3 billion in forecast in February.

Yahoo!

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