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U.S. stock futures tilted modestly higher Monday amid relative calm over European finances and the lack of any sparks at a weekend meeting of top finance ministers.

S&P 500 futures (SPX 1,065, -0.72, -0.07%) rose 1.6 points to 1,061.4 and Nasdaq 100 futures (COMP 2,141, -0.47, -0.02%) were ahead 1 point at 1,746. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDU 10,012, +10.05, +0.10%) gained
A day-long slide in stocks Thursday, fueled by a swoon in the technology sector following Apple's unveiling of its new tablet computer, left the market poised for its worst monthly decline since the end of the bear market.
Shares of Intel Corp. fell Friday after the semiconductor giant reported strong fourth-quarter results that won rave reviews from Wall Street, but also triggered worries about a peak in earnings growth.
Shares of Intel(INTC 20.84, +0.04, +0.19%) tumbled 3.2%, helping drag the entire chip sector down as the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index(SOX 344.67, -12.29, -3.44%) fell 3.4%. The chip retre
Stocks suffered the worst one-day decline of 2010 so far, led by the financial sector, which slid after J.P. Morgan Chase's announcement of weaker-than-expected revenue and a glum outlook.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average(INDU 10,610, -100.90, -0.94%) , which hadn't posted a daily decline of more than 37 points in January before Friday, ended down 100.75 points, or 0.9%, at 10,609.80.
Stocks enjoyed a broad rally Wednesday as an analyst upgrade of Merck spurred the health-care sector higher, while financials benefited from hopes for high profits.
Credit Suisse raised its investment rating on the drugmaker to outperform from neutral and boosted its target price on the stock, saying it has a positive view on the company's pipeline.
One day after the Dow Jones Industrial Average reclaimed gains for the month, preliminary figures released Tuesday point to the Dow Jones U.S. Utilities Index as the best performer for December.

But the move into what is viewed as one of the more defensive areas of the market has less to do with uncertainty about the economy or other fundamentals and more to do with fund managers looking to ha
The technology sector is again illustrating why it's the best-performing sector of 2009, as results from software giant Oracle Corp. helped propel the Nasdaq Composite Index to weekly gains even as the broad market lost ground.
Raising hopes that corporate America can begin tallying revenue gains, Oracle /quotes/comstock/15*!orcl/quotes/nls/orcl (ORCL 24.34, +1.46, +6.38%) and BlackBerry make
EW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Up 13% for the year, the financial sector is only the sixth-best performer among the S&P's 10 major industry groups. News that Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. are paying back government funds did little Tuesday to bolster a sector plagued by rising delinquencies and a hobbled lending environment.