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northrop grumman. >>> well, it looks like wall street will kick off the day with a major hangover.t about to ring on wall street. cnbc's courtney reagan is here with the market rundown. will folks be long or short this weekend? >> it's really hard to say. but right now it's looking pretty red. we've got a little bit of a hangover effect going on from yesterday, because there isn't any economic data, so to speak of, here in the united states. we're going to kind of take the lead of our european and asian trading partners. it's probably going to be tough to recapture much of yesterday's losses. obvious times, you do see a bit of sort of what we call a dead cat bounce after a day like yesterday, but that doesn't look to be the case. we're just opening here on wall street and it does look as if we are opening lower. at one point this morning, futures were actually decidedly positive. europe then went negative and our futures followed course, taking us lower, as well. the msci, it's this all-country world index that counts 45 nations, it's now in a bear market range. for the first time

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