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Wall Street opens lower on oil, rouble drop

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange December 15, 2014. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

By Rodrigo Campos

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks opened lower on Tuesday as a further slide in crude oil prices and the Russian rouble sent traders fleeing from risky assets on global economic concerns.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 98.87 points, or 0.58 percent, to 17,081.97, the S&P 500 lost 10.93 points, or 0.55 percent, to 1,978.7 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 35.68 points, or 0.77 percent, to 4,569.48.

(Reporting By Sinead Carew; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli)