Today’s Markets?
In Asia, Japan?+0.5%?to 8578. Hong Kong?+0.1%?to 21148. China?-0.3%to 2099. India?+0.2%?to 18714.?
In Europe, at midday, London?+0.6%. Paris?+1.3%. Frankfurt?+0.8%.?
Futures at 7:00:?Dow?+0.3%. S&P?+0.45%. Nasdaq?+0.6%. Crude?-0.3%to $91.62. Gold?-0.7%?to $1748.10.
Economic calendar and Fed Speak
8:30 Retail Sales and?Empire State Mfg Survey
10:00 Business Inventories
12:45 PM Fed’s Lacker: U.S. Economic Outlook
1:10 PM Fed’s Bullard: U.S. Economic and Monetary Policy
Earnings
Citigroup, Gannett , Charles Schwab,?Packaging Corp. of America
Stories
US woman takes on banks over Libor From Financial Times
NYSE Euronext to offer new retail service From Financial Times
Can Morgan Stanley?s Gorman Save Wall Street? From Bloomberg
U.S. banks push back as financial-crisis lawsuits pile up From Reuters
U.S. Futures Point to Higher Open From Wall Street Journal