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* Shares of FXCM Inc, one of the biggest
platforms catering to online and retail traders of currencies,
tumbled 70 percent in premarket trading, after it said it may be
in breach of some regulatory capital requirements after client
losses related to the Swiss National Bank's move Thursday to
scrap its three-year cap on the value of the Swiss franc at 1.20
per euro.
* Shares of Interactive Brokers, whose clients also include
currency traders, were down 6.5 percent in premarket trading.
* A busy economic calendar brings key consumer inflation data
for December at 8:30 a.m. (1330 GMT), followed 45 minutes later
by December industrial output and capacity utilization numbers.
At 10:00 a.m. (1500 GMT), the University of Michigan consumer
sentiment gauge for January is due.
* Energy stocks were set to rebound alongside a bounce in the
price of crude. Brent futures rose more than 3 percent to near
$50 a barrel after the International Energy Agency forecast the
market downtrend would end. Still, analysts said strong gains
were unlikely in the near term as global output outweighs
demand. [O/R]
* Schlumberger, the world's No.1 oilfield services provider,
said it will cut 9,000 jobs, or 7 percent of its workforce, as a
seven-month-long decline in oil prices pushed it to control
costs.
* Intel shares fell 1.8 percent in premarket trading a day after
the chipmaker gave a disappointing forecast for revenue and
gross margins for this quarter.
* With the continuing retreat, Wall Street was poised for its
fourth negative week out of the past six.
Futures snapshot at 7:17 a.m.:
* S&P 500 e-minis were down 7.5 points, or 0.38 percent, with
229,255 contracts changing hands.
* Nasdaq 100 e-minis were down 29.25 points, or 0.72 percent, in
volume of 46,666 contracts.
* Dow e-minis were down 68 points, or 0.39 percent, with 40,065
contracts changing hands.
(Editing by Bernadette Baum)
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