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US stock futures pointing at decline

US stock futures have declined clearly indicating a second day fall of S&P 500 index. The Standard & Poor 500 futures declined 0.5%. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell by 0.4%.

“Its the Fed tapering talks which are really driving everything at the moment” James Hughes, senior market analyst at Alpari UK told Bloomberg in an interview. “Youve almost got these markets on a little bit of a knife edge at the moment. They’re waiting around to see just where that next big directional move is going to come from. Youve got to almost think that this week is going to give it to us because youve got so much in the way of data.”

According to a Bloomberg survey of economists a report from ADP research would show thath US companies added around 165 000 workers in May comparing to 115 000 workers in April.

In corporate futures Apple slipped 0.8% after US trade agency said it infringed Samsungs patent leading to a possible ban of imports of some older Apple products. Citigroup dropped 0.9% in Germany. Joy Global Inc plunged 1.1 % in early trading due to Goldman Sachs degradation of its stocks from buy to neutral foreseeing a weaker demand for the companys stocks. Salesforce, the largest customer management software maker rose 3.2% as Goldman added its stock to its conviction buy list.

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