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9:34 a.m. ET: Boeing shares fall after Ukrainian airplane crash

Shares of Boeing (BA) extended losses from the overnight session to trade more than 1% lower after a Ukrainian passenger jet crashed Wednesday shortly after taking off from Iran’s capital of Tehran, killing all 176 people aboard.

Iranian officials said they believed a mechanical issue caused the crash of the Boeing 737-800 aircraft, which had been en route to Ukraine’s capital Kyiv.

The crash took place just hours after Iran launched a missile attack on airbases in Iraq housing U.S. troops.

Ukrainian officials have most recently declined to offer their assessment for the cause of the accident, as the investigation remains ongoing.

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9:31 a.m. ET: Markets open little changed

U.S. equities opened mostly flat, shrugging off earlier fears after Iran launched more than a dozen missiles to strike U.S.-Iraqi airbases.

Here were the main moves in markets, as of 9:31 a.m. ET:

• S&P 500 (^GSPC): 3,238.20, up 1.02 points or 0.03%

• Dow (^DJI): 28,548, down 35.51 points or 0.09%

• Nasdaq (^IXIC): 9,075.09, up 6.51 points or 0.09%

• Crude oil (CL=F): $62.40 per barrel, down 0.48%

• Gold (GC=F): $1,578.40 per ounce, up $4.10 or 0.26%

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8:15 a.m. ET: Private payrolls rise more than expected in December

The U.S. economy added 202,000 private payrolls at the end of last year, according to a report from ADP/Moody’s Wednesday. This exceeded consensus economist expectations for an increase of just 160,000, according to Bloomberg data. In November, private payrolls had risen by an upwardly revised 124,000, from the 67,000 reported previously.

By sector, service-producing firms led December’s advances, posting a net increase of 173,000 jobs. However, gains were capped by a loss of 21,000 jobs in the leisure and hospitality industry, and a loss of 14,000 jobs in the information industry.

Goods-producing firms increased jobs by a net 29,000, with a gain of 37,000 payrolls in construction industries offset by declines in mining and manufacturing.

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8:00 a.m. ET: Carlos Ghosn speaks for the first time since fleeing Japan

Former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn slammed the Japanese justice system during his first public appearance since fleeing the country. 

“I did not escape justice. I fled injustice and persecution, political persecution,” Ghosn said at a press conference in Lebanon on Wednesday. “You're going to die in Japan or you've got to get out.”

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7:33 a.m. ET: Stock futures muted after Iran missile strike scare

Wall Street jitters flared before quieting after Iran fired missiles at U.S.-Iraqi airbases during the overnight session. The retaliatory move by Iran, after a U.S. airstrike last week took out its top military general, produced no reported casualties so far.

Here were the main moves during the pre-market session, as of 7:33 a.m. ET:

• S&P futures (ES=F): 3,241.50, up 6.25 points or 0.19%

• Dow futures (YM=F): 28,513, down 13 points or 0.05%

• Nasdaq futures (NQ=F): 8,870.25, up 17.25 points or 0.19%

• Crude oil (CL=F): $62.59 per barrel, down $0.11 or 0.18%

• Gold (GC=F): $1,578.90 per ounce, up $4.60 or 0.29%

After reports of the projectiles around 5:30 p.m. ET Tuesday, stock futures slid and gold and oil prices spiked. Brent crude oil prices briefly surged to $71.75 per barrel and gold jumped to more than $1,600 per ounce for the first time in about seven years. These gains, however, retraced shortly thereafter.

"There was a knee-jerk reaction in financial markets, with oil and gold prices rising,” UBS economist Paul Donovan wrote in a note Wednesday. “However, a response was expected by investors, and the initial market moves seem hard to justify."

US equity futures made a round trip.

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