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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has attacked the stance of
"certain" creditors as "strange" because they rejected proposals
presented by Athens to bridge a budget gap, a government
official said without referring to specific proposals or which
of the three institutions Tsipras was blaming for the deadlock.
* Tsipras will meet the heads of the European Central Bank, the
International Monetary Fund and the European Commission in
Brussels before a meeting of euro zone finance ministers at 1300
p.m. ET.
* Greece needs fresh funds to avoid defaulting on a $1.8 billion
debt repayment to the IMF on June 30.
* The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to release its final
gross domestic product figure, showing the economy shrank 0.2
percent in the first quarter. Last month, the government
slashed its estimate to show GDP shrunk at a 0.7 percent annual
rate instead of growing at 0.2 percent as it estimated earlier.
The data is expected at 8:30 a.m. ET.
* Investors have been keeping a keen eye on economic data to see
if the U.S. economy has recovered from a slow start at the
beginning of the year. The Federal Reserve has said it remains
data-dependent and expects to raise rates when it sees a
sustained rebound in the economy.
* Netflix shares were up 2.4 percent at $697 in premarket
trading, a day after the company's board approved a
seven-for-one stock split. Netflix's shares have almost doubled
this year.
* Lennar rose 1.43 percent to $49.70 after the second-largest
U.S. homebuilder reported a better-than-expected 33 percent jump
in quarterly profit as it sold more homes at higher prices.
* Ford Motor was up 1.1 percent at $15.46 after the company said
it will test new car-sharing programs with U.S. and UK partners
as part of a strategy to embrace alternatives to traditional car
ownership.
Futures snapshot at 6:54 a.m. ET:
* S&P 500 e-minis were down 4.25 points, or 0.2 percent, with
133,559 contracts traded.
* Nasdaq 100 e-minis were down 9.25 points, or 0.2 percent, on
volume of 16,339 contracts.
* Dow e-minis were down 53 points, or 0.29 percent, with 16,856
contracts changing hands.
(Editing by Don Sebastian)
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