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Stock-index futures point to a mixed start for Wall Street Monday, as the number of coronavirus cases and deaths continues to rise and investors brace for data in the week ahead expected to underline the economic toll of the pandemic.

Investors are moving their money to the sidelines.

The SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration ETF tumbled to an all-time low Friday as crude prices plunged following the collapse of talks on production cuts between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, led by Russia. The ETF was down 7.4% at $13.23 in recent action after trading at a session low of $13.13. Oil futures fell sharply after Russia resisted a call by OPEC for major oil producers to agree to additional production cuts aimed at stabilizing the crude market in the face of a potentially major demand hit from the global spread of COVID-19. Brent crude , the global benchmark, and West Texas Intermediate crude , the U.S. benchmark, were both down nearly 8% in afternoon trade. The XOP ETF was headed for a 13.9% weekly fall and has dropped more than 44% for the year to date.

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The Federal Reserve on Monday announced it would buy bonds ‘as needed’ to support market functioning and set out $300 billion in new lending programs to help all corners of the financial market.

Investors say it’s felt a lot like 2008 in the biggest part of America’s $11 trillion home finance market, only without the insolvencies.

The question investors must now ask themselves is whether or not the market has already hit the bottom of this bear market, or whether investors should prepare themselves for worse to come.

Asian shares started the week with fresh losses as countries reported surging numbers of infections from the coronavirus that has prompted shutdowns of travel and business in many parts of the world.

U.S. Treasury yields fall Monday as investors anticipate further details on how the Federal reserve’s stimulus measures might take shape, and eye the extension of containment policies aimed at combating the COVID-19 outbreak.