 Shares of oil and gas companies were taking a broad beating ahead of Fridays open, as growing concerns of a coming recession has sent crude oil futures CL00, -3.09 sinking toward an eight-month low. The SPDR Energy Select Sector ETF XLE, -0.36 slumped 3.2 in premarket trading, with all 21 components selling off, as crude futures shed 3.4 and while futures ES00, -1.42 for the SP 500 SPX, -0.84 fell 1.4. 