US STOCKS-Wall St set to open slightly lower as Fed policy meeting looms

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* Fed kicks off two-day policy meeting

* Home Depot drops after Guggenheim downgrade

* Corning cuts forecast for display volumes

* Kraft Heinz down after 2nd-largest shareholder cuts stake

* Futures down: Dow 0.27%, S&P 0.19%, Nasdaq 0.17%

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By Medha Singh

Sept 17 (Reuters) - Wall Street was set to open slightly

lower on Tuesday as investors stayed away from making big bets

ahead of the Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting, where it

is widely expected to cut interest rates.

The Fed concludes its policy meeting on Wednesday, facing a

host of global growth worries including a prolonged U.S.-China

trade war into which the weekend bombings on Saudi Arabia's oil

refinery have thrown an oil price shock.

Traders currently see a 65.8% chance of a quarter percentage

point cut from the Fed this week, down from 88.8% on Friday,

according to CME's FedWatch.

"It's just typical trading on the vigil of a Fed meeting,"

said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital

Securities in New York.

"We haven't seen any panic from what happened over the

weekend. I think (the Fed) will stick with a quarter of a

percentage point cut even after the Saudi attack."

Since the last interest rate cut in July, U.S. economic data

has shown mixed signals about the domestic economy. While strong

retail sales and wage growth have bolstered consumer confidence,

the trade war with China has weighed on manufacturing and

business sentiment.

Deputy-level trade talks between the United States and China

are set to resume on Thursday, but any agreement between the two

sides is expected to be a superficial fix at this stage.

Tariff concessions from both countries last week helped the

benchmark S&P 500 to trade within 1% of its all-time high

touched in July.

At 8:35 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis 1YMcv1 were down 74 points,

or 0.27%. S&P 500 e-minis EScv1 were down 5.75 points, or

0.19% and Nasdaq 100 e-minis NQcv1 were down 13.5 points, or

0.17%.

U.S. industrial production is expected to have risen 0.2% in

August after a fall of 0.2% in July. The data is due at 09:15

a.m. ET.

Home Depot Inc HD.N was the biggest decliner among

Dow-listed stocks in trading before the bell, dropping 1.4%

after Guggenheim downgraded the home improvement chain's shares

to "neutral" from "buy".

Shares of Corning Inc GLW.N tumbled 10.1% after the

Gorilla glass maker cut its current-quarter display volume

forecast. Kraft Heinz Co KHC.O slipped 2.9% after the packaged food

maker's second-largest investor, 3G Capital, sold over 25

million shares in open market at a discount.