Wall Street weighed down by lower oil, weak earnings

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) April 15, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidMoreBy Abhiram Nandakumar
(Reuters) – U.S. stock indexes were slightly lower on Thursday as oil prices fell and Travelers and Verizon reported weak results.
Crude prices fell nearly 2 percent, but were hovering near five-month highs after the International Energy Agency said 2016 would see the biggest fall in non-OPEC production in more than two decades. [O/R]
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