U.S. Futures Point to Higher Open

Tue, 05/15/2012 - 06:46 EDT - WSJ

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U.S. stock futures rose after investors received some encouraging news about the German economy and awaited a deluge of economic reports from the U.S., including the consumer-price-inflation and retail-sales numbers.

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