Futures rise on Home Depot, earnings in focus
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Stock futures rose on Wednesday, with Home Depot Inc.'s  plan for a $22.5 billion share buyback set to underpin demand for equities while investors await a batch of earnings reports, including Morgan Stanley's .
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Stock futures rose early Tuesday,  pointing to a higher market open, lifted by  better-than-expected earnings and outlook from IBM and a  further decline in oil prices.
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Stock futures rose on Monday, pointing  to a solid start to the New Year, as oil prices tumbled more  than a dollar and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT.N brightened its  outlook for December sales.
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Stock index futures added to gains on Tuesday as government data showed a stronger-than-expected rise in orders for durable goods in December, helping the outlook for business spending.
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Stock index futures remained higher on Tuesday after investment bank Goldman Sachs Group  reported its fourth-quarter earnings rose.
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Home Depot Inc. HD.N on Tuesday  reported a 19 percent rise in second-quarter profit, topping  estimates, as store renovations and efforts to improve service  drove higher average sales in every category.
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Stock futures edged higher on Friday, helped by optimism about takeover activity and private equity deals.
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Home Depot warns of falling profit, but company seems well-positioned to ride out the housing storm.
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The Home Depot Inc., buoyed by robust sales, posted nearly a 19 percent jump in second-quarter profit, prompting the retail giant to raise its earnings outlook for all of 2004.
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U.S. stocks looked set to rise slightly on Wednesday, with stock index futures pointing higher after Dell Inc.  reported better-than-expected earnings, setting the stage for gains by technology shares a day before the Thanksgiving holiday.
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U.S. stock futures inched higher on Tuesday, pointing to a higher market open, after strong profits from Tyco International Ltd.  and other companies boosted optimism about company profits, and a jump in oil prices pushed up shares of Exxon Mobil Corp. .
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ATLANTA, Aug 17  - Home Depot Inc. (HD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday reported a 19 percent rise in second-quarter profit, handily topping estimates, as store renovations and efforts to improve service drove higher ...
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Stock index futures rose on Monday in  the final trading session of the year with little on the  corporate agenda and ahead of existing home sales data.
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The Home Depot Inc. reported a nearly 19 percent jump in second-quarter profit on record sales as it benefited from strong performance in stores open at least a year. It also raised its earnings outlook for the year.
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Stock index futures rose on Thursday, pointing to a higher market open, after data suggested a stronger-than-expected jobs market and an upgrade of General Motors Corp.  sent the auto maker's shares higher.
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Index futures pointed to a rebound on Wall Street on Friday ahead of a long weekend after heavy losses in the previous session, with earnings from General Electric  and consumer sentiment data in focus.
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Stock index futures rose on Tuesday after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc  earnings topped analysts' estimates.