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A decidedly "risk off" start to the week.

Europe is red across the board, with Germany down 1.2%, France off 1.25%, and Italy down 2%.

Shares of Italian bank UniCredit are down 3%.

US futures are solidly in the red, as well, with losses on the order of 0.5%, or at least in that ballpark.

In terms of news, things are still pretty quiet.

 There was a bad Italian business confidence report but mostly not much is going on in the headline-world.