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(Updates with Google's shares falling before the open, OPEC delegate comments, U.S. oil data expected)
By Vivianne Rodrigues
NEW YORK, March 8 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures fell on Wednesday, signaling the Standard & Poor's 500 and Nasdaq Composite indexes could fall for a fifth-straight day, as U.S. Treasury debt yields held near 21-month highs and after another misstep by Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research)
Stocks have been hit by a rise in the benchmark 10-year Treasury note's yield, signaling higher interest rates ahead and increased borrowing costs for businesses and consumers.
A decline in oil prices to their lowest level in a month weighed on shares of energy companies in European trading.
"Concerns about higher interest rates and the yield on the 10-year note may keep stocks on the south side again this morning," said Art Hogan, chief market analyst at Jefferies & Co. in Boston. "The higher yield ... acts as a tax on corporations, and it may also attract money to the bond markets from equities."
Google shares fell in electronic trading on Wednesday after the Web search company said it inadvertently published outdated revenue and profit projections on its Web site after last week's meeting with Wall Street analysts. Google repeated its refusal to issue financial projections.
Goldman Sachs cut its price target for shares of Google to $490 from $500, MarketWatch reported on its Web site. The company's shares fell 2.5 percent to $355.50 on the Inet electronic brokerage.
"The company being such a marquee name, it may hurt other tech shares and push the Nasdaq down," Hogan said.
S&P 500 futures <SPc1> were down 3.2 points, below fair value, a mathematical formula that evaluates pricing by taking into account interest rates, dividends and time to expiration on the contract.
Dow Jones industrial average futures <DJc1> sank 29 points, and Nasdaq 100 <NDc1> futures fell 6.5 points.
The 10-year note yield spiked as high as 4.81 percent on Tuesday, its highest since mid-2004. The note was yielding 4.73 percent early on Wednesday.
Amid huge media interest, the New York Stock Exchange -- the world's biggest stock market and valued at $10.5 billion -- starts trading after having completed the acquisition of electronic rival Archipelago. The Big Board will trade under the ticker NYX. (NYX.N: Quote, Profile, Research)
OPEC has agreed to leave its oil output ceiling at a near-maximum 28 million barrels per day, an OPEC delegate said on Wednesday in Vienna where OPEC ministers were meeting.
Lead-month crude futures were down 20 cents to $61.38 a barrel in electronic trading.
The government will release weekly U.S. oil inventories at 10:30 a.m. (1530 GMT). Crude is expected in a survey of analysts to rise by 1.6 million barrels in the latest week. Distillates, which include heating oil, were seen falling by 1.6 million barrels. Gasoline was expected to decline by 600,000 barrels.
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gap-close und dann weiter. Allerdings hoffe ich doch eher auf Abgaben ;-) Mittelfristig hat sich das Bild doch ziemlich eingetrübt beim DOW (jedenfalls meiner Meinung nach). Ein neues high sehe ich beim DOW so schnell nicht. Aber ist nur die Meinung eines Gesellen ;-)
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ich hab da noch einen Schein von vor ein paar Wochen, denn würde ich gerne langsam aber sicher mit einem schönen Plus geben. Mals sehen, ob es diesen Monat noch was wird ;-)
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gap nach oben offen, kurzfristig (tagesbasis) erholungsmöglichkeit vorhanden, Schwäche am Anfang könnte fake sein. Mal sehen, ob sie das low der letzten Tage testen. Da long-Einstieg möglich mit enger Absicherung. Sollte 10.900 fallen, kann es schnell bis zur 10.800 gehen.
Mittelfristig aber short.
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aber bei dem kleinen Unterschied zu den futures ist das inzwischen auch egal ;-)
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Beste Grüße vom Gesellen 
jetzt werden Karten neu gemischt. 16:30 Ölmarktbericht. Mal schauen, was sie daraus machen.
Beste Grüße vom Gesellen 
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