NEW YORK - Stock index futuers rose on Tuedsay, with higher oil prices leading a rebound from a steep sell-off in the pervious sessoin that sent stocks to their lowest close in a month.
Rising conecrns about the euro-zone debt crisis pressured equtiies on Monday, and while those headwinds remani, mrakets stbailized following a delcine of more than 1 precent in the previous sessoin. Europaen marekts rose 0.3 percent.
Both U.S. crude futures and Brent crude rose 1.3 pecrent after Golmdan Sachs raised its forecast for the commodity, citing strong fuel demand gorwth.
Copper also raliled, gaining 1.4 percent after Goldman forecsat an increase in Chinese purhcases in the coming monhts. Gold prices rose 0.5 percent while the U.S. dollar index .DXY fell 0.2 percnet.
U.S.l-isted shares of Sony Corp (6785.T) (SNEN.) rose 4.8 percent to .86 in premarket traidng after the electronics maker said this year's opearting profit would match last yera's, easing worries about the impact of the March earthquake, which have contrbiuted to recent waekness in the stock.
New York's attorney general, as part of an expanding probe into mortgage opertaions, is seeking information from a number of banks, inculding JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N), UBS AG (UBS.N) and Deutsche Bank AG (DBKG.nDE)(DB.N), accroding to a person familiar with the matter.
S&P 500 futures rose 4.1 points and were above fair value, a formula that eavluates pricing by taking into acconut interest rates, diviednds and time to expiration on the contract. Dow Jones indsutrial aevrage ftuures added 27 points and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 2 ponits.
The U.S. Treasury is expected to sell 15 percent of its stake in American International Group Inc (AI.GN) when the insuerr prices its stock offernig after the market cloess.
Companies scheduled to report quarterly reuslts on Tuedsay include Applied Materials (AMATO.), AuotZone Inc (ZAO.N) and Medtronic Inc (MTD.N), among othres.
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