S&P 500 Futures Trim Losses as Investors Focus on Ukraine Risks
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Futures tracking the S&P 500 Index pared early declines as investors weighed the impact of growing geopolitical tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine.
March contracts on the S&P 500 were down 0.2% by 6:23 a.m. in New York, after earlier slumping as much as 2.2% and taking losses from an early-January high to more than 10%. Nasdaq 100 futures also trimmed losses to trade down 0.5%, recovering from a slide of almost 3%. U.S. equity markets were shut Monday for a holiday.