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U.S. stocks are following crude oil prices lower, pairing the strongest weekly gains this year

with investors reassessing the path for interest rates after data showed stirring signs of inflation.

We check the markets every 15 minutes throughout the trading day on

Bloomberg. Now Jones industrial average down the six-tens percent or 95 points to

16, 314. S&P 500 down six-tens percent or 11 points to 1906.

The NASDAQ's down 4 tenths percent or 15 points to 4471.

10-year Treasury down 330 seconds, the yield 1.75 percent,

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