PARIS (Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a mixed open on Wall Street on Friday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.08 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.05 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.13 percent at 0815 GMT.
European shares hit a five-month high on Friday, with a key index set to extend its best weekly winning streak in seven years, on expectations that European policymakers might resolve their differences and work closely to tackle the debt crisis. <.eu/>
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The U.S. Federal Reserve may need to raise interest rates sooner than late 2014, despite continued high unemployment, Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota said on Thursday.
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Network storage equipment maker Brocade Communication Systems Inc's
Technology products distributor ScanSource Inc
Chipmaker Marvell Technology Group Ltd's
Weak shipping rates weighed on DryShips Inc's
On the macro front, investors awaited the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan surveys' August preliminary consumer sentiment index, due at 1355 GMT. Economists in a Reuters survey expect a reading of 72.4 compared with 72.3 in the final July report.
At 1400 GMT, the Conference Board releases its report on July leading economic indicators. Economists in a Reuters survey forecast a 0.2 percent rise compared with a 0.3 percent drop in June.
The S&P 500 closed at its highest level since early April on Thursday after comments from German Chancellor Angela Merkel that appeared to support the European Central Bank's efforts to fight the region's debt crisis. Cisco Systems jumped after it raised its dividend.
The Dow Jones industrial average <.dji> gained 0.65 percent, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.spx> added 0.71 percent and the Nasdaq Composite Index <.ixic> gained 1 percent.
(Reporting by Blaise Robinson; Editing by John Stonestreet)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/stock-index-futures-signal-mixed-open-084028204--finance.html
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