U.S. Stock Futures Extend Gains as Retail Sales Top Forecasts
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U.S. stock-index futures extended gains, signaling the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index may advance for a second day, after government data on retail sales was better than economists estimated.
Futures on the S&P 500 rose 1 percent to 1,278.7 at 8:32 a.m. in New York. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures advanced 86 points, or 0.7 percent, to 11,971.