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U.S. shares jumped on Wednesday, helped by gains in technology
and financial stocks and optimism that Greece may be closer to
reaching a deal with creditors.
* The World Bank joined the International Monetary Fund in
urging the U.S. Federal Reserve to hold off on a rate hike until
next year to avoid worsening exchange rate volatility and
crimping global growth.
* Investors to keep a close eye on Thursday's data for signs of
a recovery in the U.S. economy after growth came to a standstill
in the first quarter.
* U.S. retail sales are likely to have rebounded in May as
consumers stepped up purchases of automobiles. The data is
expected at 8:30 a.m. ET. Other data expected to be released on
Thursday includes import and export prices and weekly jobless
claims numbers.
* European shares saw fresh gains after their best day in over a
month and as bets that the United States could be edging towards
its first interest rate rise kept upward pressure on global bond
yields and the dollar.
* Economists and top Wall Street banks expect the Fed to raise
rates in September, which would be the central bank's first hike
in almost a decade and would finally mark a turn in the
direction of the flow of easy money that has repeatedly driven
world stocks and bond prices to record highs in recent years.
* Box shares jumped 11.3 percent to $19.80 in premarket trading
after the cloud storage provider raised its full-year forecast.
* Amgen rose 1.1 percent to $157.25, a day after an advisory
panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended
approval of its cholesterol-lowering drug.
* Dow component Nike <NKE.N> inched up 0.5 percent to $103.80
after it won an eight-year merchandising and marketing contract
with the National Basketball Association, replacing Adidas as
the exclusive apparel provider.
Futures snapshot at 7:28 a.m. ET:
* S&P 500 e-minis were down 1 points, or 0.05 percent, with
114,791 contracts traded.
* Nasdaq 100 e-minis were up 1.25 points, or 0.03 percent, on
volume of 14,583 contracts.
* Dow e-minis were up 4 points, or 0.02 percent, with 13,971
contracts changing hands.
(Reporting by Tanya Agrawal; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)
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