Markets mixed ahead of Federal Reserve meeting

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Economic forecasters are predicting slower growth in the economy, but not negative growth, as the stock market flirts with 2006 highs.

Early gains posted Monday on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were erased when the price of oil futures rose based on news that BPs Thunder Horse production platform in the Gulf of Mexico won?t be producing until the middle of 2008.

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