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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
Airline stocks are getting a boost from improving revenue trends after a year of depressed demand, but volatile fuel prices and climbing global capacity rates have some analysts on Wall Street feeling edgy.

U.S. airlines begin posting their fourth-quarter results in the coming week, and analysts are predicting narrower losses for the most part thanks to sharp reductions in seat capacity.
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.
Investing in Turkish stocks could bring strong gains over the next year and a rally in the country's currency could give those gains an extra boost, Chris Zwermann, global strategist at Zwermann Financial, told CNBC Wednesday.
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.
Knowing that there can be too much of a good thing, many investors are wary about how stock and bond markets this year will follow their remarkable 2009 surge.
Not that 2010 is likely to disappoint. "We're back to an environment where the fundamentals have to come through," Doll said. "Companies have to deliver the earnings. When it's an earnings-driven market, there are gains but more muted gai
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