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* A thin economic calendar and no earnings
reports from S&P 500 components will leave traders wanting, with
the benchmark index less than 2 percent away from its record
high set early last month.
* FedEx shares rose 4.1 percent in premarket trading as it seeks
to buy Dutch package delivery firm TNT Express for $4.8 billion,
a deal in which United Parcel Service failed two years ago when
its bid was blocked by competition regulators. Unlike FedEx, UPS
already had a strong European network when it bid for TNT.
* General Motors shares fell 2.1 percent in early trade
after Canada agreed to sell nearly 73.4 million GM shares it
owns to Goldman Sachs <GS.N>.
* Informatica Corp <INFA.O> jumped 5 percent premarket as the
enterprise software company has received offers from two private
equity consortia and is negotiating a sale that could value it
between $5 billion and $6 billion.
Futures snapshot at 7:23 a.m. EDT (1123 GMT)
* S&P 500 e-minis were up 4.25 points, or 0.2 percent,
with 98,772 contracts changing hands.
* Nasdaq 100 e-minis were up 12.5 points, or 0.29 percent, in
volume of 12,617 contracts.
* Dow e-minis were up 39 points, or 0.22 percent, with 17,045
contracts changing hands.
(Reporting by Rodrigo Campos; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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