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NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – Increased interest rate concerns following a surprisingly strong US labor market report put the New York stock exchanges under pressure on Friday. Three quarters of an hour after the start of trading, the leading index Dow Jones Industrial fell by 1.33 percent to 42,067.38 points. The market-wide S&P 500 lost 1.70 percent to 5,817.67 points. The technology-heavy NASDAQ 100 even saw a discount of 2.13 percent to 20,729.03 points.