U.S. stock-index futures advanced, following the Standard & Poor™s 500 Index™s gain last week.
Apple Inc. added 0.8 percent in early New York trading as the Wall Street Journal
reported that the technology company has held talks with Comcast Corp.,
America™s largest cable operator, about streaming live and on-demand
television.
Futures
on the S&P 500 expiring in June climbed 0.2 percent to 1,860.9 at
6:10 a.m. in New York. The equity benchmark climbed 1.4 percent last
week. Dow Jones Industrial Average contracts gained 22 points, or 0.1
percent, to 16,243 today.
U.S.
President Barack Obama arrives in Europe as Russia, which completed its
annexation of Crimea last week, masses troops on the border with
Ukraine. U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague wrote in yesterday™s
Sunday Telegraph that the troop buildup means the crisis may worsen,
calling the situation the most serious risk to Europe™s security this
century.
Apple
added 0.8 percent to $537.01. The newspaper reported that Comcast has
discussed providing preferential access to its cables for video content
sent to Apple™s set-top boxes. The newspaper cited unidentified people
familiar with the matter.
Source : Bloomberg
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