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Wall Street inched lower early Monday following last week's rout, the market's worst stretch in six months. Futures for the S&P 500 were off 0.3% and futures for the Dow Jones industrials ticked down 0.2% before the bell. Worries over China’s property sector, a U.S. government shutdown and the continued strike by American autoworkers were weighing on markets. Media and entertainment companies got a small boost from news that a tentative agreement was reached Sunday to end a historic screenwriter