Morning Outlook

U.S. stock futures are slightly higher Tuesday morning, extending modest gains logged the previous day and following mixed trading in overseas markets.

Ahead of the market's open, Dow Jones industrial average futures rose 8, or 0.1 percent, to 8,466. Standard & Poor's 500 index futures rose 1.40, or 0.2 percent, to 922.60, and Nasdaq 100 index futures gained 1.25, or 0.1 percent, to 1,482.75.

Economic Calendar

10:00 AM
Consumer Confidence: A survey of consumer attitudes on present economic conditions and expectations of future conditions for the month of June. The consensus reading for June is 57, down from last month’s reading of 54.9. However, consumers don’t seem to want to spend, as indicated with personal savings rising to a 15 year high.

10:00 AM
State Street Investor Confidence Index: Measures confidence by looking at actual levels of risk in investment portfolios. The figure indicates, for a given set of fundamentals, whether or not investors are bullish or bearish on assets with different risk levels.