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Roundtable. Julie hyman and chief markets correspondent scarlet fu look at todays acrosstheboard drop in the u. S. Equity markets. Julie, let me begin with you. Is this weatherrelated . It is fundamentalrelated. People around the city talked about whether they were fully staffed and said they were. Many had spent the night in the hotel and came into the office or were telecommuting from home. It seems as though volume is a normal levels. People are focusing on the news at hand and that news is largely negative. At least if youre looking at corporate news. We had a number of earnings reports after the close yesterday and early today that came in below estimates. There were a couple of important tracks things to blame, if you will, for these reports. One is the drop in commodity prices. Caterpillar blamed their drop on disappointing orders from clients in oil and gas industry notably. Caterpillar shares have been trading down. We have seen a slide in copper and gold prices as well. Repor

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