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U.S. stocks fell, dragging the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index lower following its worst week of 2012, after employers added fewer jobs than forecast in March.

Equities slumped last week after the Federal Reserve signaled it will refrain from further monetary stimulus and concern about Europe intensified. The U.S. Labor Department said April 6 that employers added 120,000 jobs, the fewest in five months and less than the median economist forecast of 205,000. The amount had exceeded 200,000 for three straight months.

Dow    12,939.73        -120.41           -0.92%, Nasdaq          3,048.27          -32.23 -1.05%, S&P 500       1,382.60            -15.48 -1.11%

Bank of America (ВАС) lost 3.1 percent to $8.94, the biggest retreat in the Dow. JPMorgan (JPM) erased 1.4 percent to $43.73.

Industrial stocks fell 1.7 percent for the second-biggest drop as a group in the S&P 500. Caterpillar (САТ) , the world’s largest construction and mining-equipment manufacturer, retreated 2.5 percent to $103.18, while General Electric (GE), the maker of jet engines and power generation equipment, declined 2 percent to $19.11.

Alcoa (АА) fell 0.3 percent to $9.60. The largest U.S. aluminum producer will report first-quarter earnings after the close of trading tomorrow.

AOL soared the most since at least November 2009, adding 46 percent to $26.81. The Internet company, under shareholder pressure to make strategic changes as revenue declines, agreed to sell and license more than 800 patents to Microsoft in a deal worth $1.06 billion. Microsoft stock fell 0.7 percent to $31.29.

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U.S. stock futures fell after American employers added fewer jobs than forecast in March.

Equities slumped last week after the Federal Reserve signaled it will refrain from further monetary stimulus and concern about Europe intensified. The U.S. Labor Department said April 6 that employers added 120,000 jobs, the fewest in five months and less than the median economist forecast of 203,000 in a survey. The amount had exceeded 200,000 for three straight months.

Global Stocks:

Nikkei  9,546.26 -142.19 -1.47%

Hang Seng 20,593 -197.98 -0.95%

Shanghai Composite 2,285.78 -20.78 -0.90%

European Stocks were closed today.

Crude oil $101.38 (-1.9%).

Gold $1646.50 (+1,0%).

Asian stocks fell for a fourth day, the longest losing streak on the regional benchmark since November, as a weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs report cast doubt on the strength of the recovery in the world’s biggest economy.

Nikkei 225 9,546.26 -142.19 -1.47%

Hang Seng 20,593 -197.98 -0.95%

S&P/ASX 200 4,319.85 -14.02 -0.32%

Shanghai Composite 2,285.78 -20.78 -0.90%

Toyota Motor Corp. fell 1.5 percent in Tokyo after U.S. payrolls grew at the slowest pace in five months and the yen rose against the dollar, damping the outlook for export earnings.

Samsung Electronics Co. slid 1.4 percent after Apple Inc. asked a U.S. court to block sales of products it said “slavishly copy” the iPhone and the iPad.

HTC Corp. dropped 6.2 percent in Taiwan after the smartphone maker posted its biggest drop in profit since listing a decade ago.

Asian stocks fell, with the regional benchmark index extending a weekly drop and falling to its lowest level in a month, as slowing German factory output fueled concern Europe’s economy is contracting.

Asian stocks fell today after German industrial production fell 1.3 percent in February, more than twice as much as economists’ estimates. Shares also dropped after Spanish bond yields rose to their highest compared with German debt, and French borrowing costs rose at a bond auction, adding to concern the debt crisis is spreading.

Nikkei 225 9,688.45   -395.11 -3.92%      

Hang Seng 20,593    +37.42 +0.18%                  

S&P/ASX 200 4,319.85      -15.40 -0.36%        

Shanghai Composite 2,306.55 +43.76 +1.93%       

Exporters to Europe declined, with Sony sliding 2 percent to 1,634 yen. Nintendo Co., a Japanese maker of game players that gets a third of its sales in Europe, dropped 2.1 percent to 12,100 yen.

Japanese steelmakers fell after Kobe Steel Ltd. posting a 20 billion yen ($243 million) loss for the year through March that was twice as big as forecast. Japan’s fourth-biggest maker of the alloy lost 3.1 percent to 127 yen. Nippon Steel Corp., the No. 1 producer, declined 2.8 percent to 212 yen.

Hynix Semiconductor dropped 2 percent to 29,250 won after the Nikkei newspaper reported the South Korean chipmaker may make a joint bid with Toshiba Corp. for bankrupt Elpida Memory. Toshiba slipped 1.1 percent to 349 yen.

Among shares that rose, Astellas Pharma rose 3.2 percent to 3,360 yen after the drugmaker’s mirabegron treatment for overactive bladders won the backing of advisers to U.S. regulators. The drug is the first in a class of treatments for sudden urination-urge conditions that affect 42 million people in the U.S., Tokyo-based Astellas said.