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* Earnings season begins to wind down this week,
with 16 S&P 500 companies expected to report quarterly results,
including retailers Wal-Mart and Macy's as well as network
equipment maker Cisco Systems. McDonald's is scheduled to post
October sales results on Monday.
* According to Thomson Reuters data through Friday, of 442
companies in the S&P 500 to report earnings, 74.2 percent have
topped Wall Street expectations, well above the 63 percent beat
rate since 1994 and 67 percent for the past four quarters.
Earnings are expected to grow 9.8 percent over the year-ago
period.
* The Dow has risen 7.3 percent while the S&P 500 is up 7.7
percent over past three weeks, the best three-week performance
for both indexes since October 2011.
* KKR & Co <KKR.N> plans to sell its North Dakota Bakken oil
deposit worth less than $500 million as part of an ongoing
downsizing plan, according to people familiar with the matter.
* European stocks inched higher as acquisition hopes fueled
gains for oil services firms after Dutch group Boskalis took a
stake in Fugro.
* Asian shares gained in the wake of U.S. jobs data that pointed
to solid economic growth, with Hong Kong leading the gains after
regulators set a date for a long-awaited trading link between
the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges to open.
* S&P 500 e-minis were up 2.75 points, or 0.14 percent,
with 111,201 contracts changing hands.
* Nasdaq 100 e-minis were up 10.75 points, or 0.26 percent, in
volume of 18,097 contracts.
* Dow e-minis were up 22 points, or 0.13 percent, with
18,206 contracts changing hands.
(Editing by Bernadette Baum)
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