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German 10-year Bund yields, the benchmark for European debt
costs, rose to 2015 highs, while U.S. benchmark Treasury yields
jumped to seven-month highs on Wednesday.
* The European Central Bank's insistence on Wednesday that there
was no need to adjust monetary policy in the face of volatility
also rattled financial markets.
* The Greece stand-off continued with Greek Prime Minister
Alexis Tsipras emerging from late-night talks with senior EU
officials in Brussels saying a deal with creditors was "within
sight", but differences remain.
* U.S. weekly jobless claims are expected to fall to 279,000
from 282,000 in the latest week. The data is expected at 8:30
a.m. ET (1230 GMT). Investors have been perusing data for clues
on the timing of a rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve.
* T-Mobile shares rose 6.9 percent to $40.96 in premarket
trading after the Wall Street Journal reported that Dish
Networks is in talks to merge with the company. Dish rose 3
percent to $73.
* FireEye <FEYE.N> was up 3.5 percent to $49.35 after the
company partnered with Visa <V.N> to help defend clients against
attacks on consumer payment data. Visa inched down 0.5 percent
to $68.64.
* Molycorp tumbled 17 percent to 34 cents after the rare earth
miner missed an interest payment earlier this week, heightening
concerns that the struggling company could file for bankruptcy
before the end of the month.
* J.M. Smucker fell 1 percent to $117 after the company reported
a quarterly loss hurt by higher green coffee costs and lower
demand for its coffee products in the United States following
price increases.
Futures snapshot at 7:08 a.m. ET:
* S&P 500 e-minis were down 13.75 points, or 0.65 percent, with
167,840 contracts traded.
* Nasdaq 100 e-minis were down 40.5 points, or 0.89 percent, on
volume of 39,536 contracts.
* Dow e-minis were down 106 points, or 0.59 percent, with 33,184
contracts changing hands.
(Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)
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