Futures rise before wave of earnings, IBM gains
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Stock index futures suggested Wall Street may rebound on Thursday as a fresh round of earnings could shift investors' focus back to corporate profitability and away from the deteriorating subprime credit market.
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IBM  on Thursday forecast  2008 earnings ahead of Wall Street expectations, sending its  shares up 5 percent.
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Stock index futures rose on Monday, suggesting the market will rebound from last week's losses, after financial results from IBM  lifted the technology sector.
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Stock index futures signaled a modest  rebound on Wall Street on Thursday ahead of results from  companies including Merrill Lynch , Bank of New York  Mellon  and Washington Mutual .
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Stock index futures rose on Wednesday before Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's congressional testimony, which could give a hint about the outlook for interest rates, and retail sales data.
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Stock index futures rose sharply on Tuesday, suggesting Wall Street will open higher, before quarterly financial results from investment bank Goldman Sachs Group  later on Tuesday.
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Stock index futures rose on Wednesday on higher-than-expected earnings, but traders are likely to take their cues from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who testifies before a congressional committee.
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Stocks index futures pointed to a  slightly higher open on Tuesday but investors could remain on  the sidelines ahead of the Federal Reserve&#39;s rate decision and  statement as well as quarterly results from Lehman Brothers  .
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US stock-index futures rose before an Institute for Supply Management report that may show growth in the services industry accelerated last month.
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IBM  reported a better- than-expected 24 percent rise in preliminary quarterly earnings on Monday on strong sales in overseas markets, driving its shares up 5 percent and spurring a broader tech rally.
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Stock futures rose on Friday, pointing  to a higher market open, after U.S. employment data came in  slightly lower than expected.
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U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday, buoyed  by higher-than-expected earnings from Google Inc. GOOG.O and  Boeing Co. BA.N amid caution before the Federal Reserve  releases a statement that could signal the pace of future  interest-rate hikes.
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Stock index futures pointed higher on Thursday after reassuring results and outlook from business software maker Oracle, though nervousness before investment bank Bear Stearns Co Inc's  results and key data on U.S. economic growth held the advance in check.
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U.S. stock futures pointed to a higher open on Thursday, with support seen from solid earnings and a likely rise in tech shares after a management reshuffle at Dell Inc.  sent the computer maker's stock soaring.
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Stock index futures rose sharply in  European trade on Tuesday, rebounding from early losses, ahead  of earnings from Goldman Sachs  which might offer clues  on the outlook for the credit-hit banking sector.
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Stock index futures suggested a higher market open on Friday before a report on consumer prices as the Dow industrials stood at a record high on optimism about corporate earnings and economic growth.
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Stock futures rose on Friday, suggesting a rebound from recent session losses, helped by a higher-than-expected profit forecast from IBM  and earnings from economic bellwether General Electric Co .