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* Yellen will speak on monetary policy at the
San Francisco Fed at 3:45 p.m. EDT.
* Equities have traded in lock step with the U.S. currency of
late ahead of the start of earnings season, as traders gauge how
much the greenback's strength will hurt corporations' bottom
lines.
* Dow Chemical shares jumped near 8 percent in premarket trading
after it announced the spinoff of part of a unit which will then
merge with Olin Corp <OLN.N>. Olin shares gained 4.8 percent in
light trading.
* The final reading on gross domestic product for the last
quarter of 2014 is expected at 8:30 a.m. EDT, with the headline
number expected to rise to 2.4 percent from 2.2 percent. The
University of Michigan final March consumer sentiment reading is
due at 10 a.m. EDT.
* BlackBerry posted a fiscal fourth-quarter profit, its
turnaround efforts beginning to gain traction. Shares edged up
before being halted prior to the earnings announcement.
BlackBerry shares were down 2 percent in premarket trading.
Futures snapshot at 7:25 a.m. EDT:
* S&P 500 e-minis were down 2 points, or 0.1 percent, with
127,084 contracts changing hands.
* Nasdaq 100 e-minis were down 3.75 points, or 0.09 percent, in
volume of 22,732 contracts.
* Dow e-minis were down 23 points, or 0.13 percent, with 25,047
contracts changing hands.
(Reporting by Rodrigo Campos; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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