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NewsFinder MarketWatch RSS Feeds MARKETWATCH NEWS NEWS SERVICES PRESS RELEASES MARKET ADVISERS NEWS SEARCH Ticker/keyword: TickerKeyword Source: All MarketWatch NewsTop StoriesRealTime HeadlinesMarket PulsePremium ProductsTV & Radio 8:16am 01/18/06 U.S. stock futures point to sharply lower open ($SPX, $INDU, $INDU) By Mark Cotton
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stock futures are pointing to a sharply lower open Wednesday as weaker-than-expected results from Intel Corp. and Yahoo Inc. stoked concern the fourth-quarter earnings season is not living up to expectations, with a fresh spike in crude-oil prices also weighing on sentiment. "It's going to start bad but the key is how the market finishes," said John Hughes, managing director at Epiphany Equity Research. ""You've haven't really had any good earnings reports just yet and after the big run-up, you're going to have a lot of people questioning whether or not there is valid, fundamental support for that run." Commenting on the plunge in Japan's stock market, Hughes said it was "disconcerting," for equity traders as it raised the possibility U.S. markets could follow suit with a similar run of down days. Hughes added that the rise in oil is not helping matters. "It's not as if we haven't dealt with crude prices at these levels, but again you're pushing up against the historic highs." Nasdaq 100 futures were down 32.5 points at 1,719.5 while S&P 500 futures fell 10.20 points to 1,279.30.