By Sruthi Shankar
(Reuters) - U.S. stock futures were slightly lower on Tuesday in light trading volumes after Christmas holiday as losses in Apple and a bunch of chipmakers weighed.
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At 6:51 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis <1YMc1> were down 35 points, or 0.14 percent, with 6,437 contracts changing hands.
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The indexes ended with weekly gains on Friday after a long-promised Republican bill to cut corporate tax rates was ratified and a short-term spending bill that averted a government shutdown was approved.
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A report due at 10:00 a.m. ET is likely to show consumer confidence index fell to 128.1 in December from 129.5 in the previous month.
(Reporting by Sruthi Shankar in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva)