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Stock futures fall after Lloyds unveils HBOS loss


    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures fell on Friday after Lloyds Banking Group said its HBOS subsidiary lost about 8.5 billion pounds ($12.28 billion) last year, putting pressure on U.S. financial shares.

    "Predominantly it was because of the Lloyds Bank earnings release over in London," said Tim Smalls, head of U.S. stock trading at brokerage firm Execution LLC in Greenwich, Connecticut. "That put pressure on all the global financials and that drove us lower."

    S&P 500 futures fell 5.00 points and were below fair value, a formula that evaluates pricing by taking into account interest rates, dividends and time to expiration on the contract. Dow Jones industrial average futures lost 48 points, and Nasdaq 100 futures were down 6.25 points.

    (Reporting by Leah Schnurr; Editing by James Dalgleish)