Off-Hours Trading: Futures Pointing to Continued Bounce for Stocks
Yesterday's positive momentum looks ready to carry through into early trading today, with the futures and European action pointing higher.
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Major indices in Europe were up solidly, with the French CAC 40 leading on the upside with a gain of 1.5%. The U.K.'s FTSE 100 was up 1%, while Germany's Xetra Dax was up 0.7%. Stocks trended higher in overnight Asian trading as well (see today's Asian Markets Update for more).
In corporate news, America Online (AOL Quote) was up 1 5/16 to 61 15/16 on Instinet on a Wall Street Journal report that AOL and pending acquisition Time Warner (TWX Quote) will pledge to open their cable system to other Internet service providers. Time Warner hadn't traded. ...
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| 10,344.84 | 1,095.63 | 2,144.60 | 32.01 |
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