U.S. stock index futures traded higher on Thursday, following Wednesday's Wall Street gains. European stock indexes traded mixed on Thursday, after the European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged. Asian stock indexes finished mostly higher overnight after data from China showed that city house prices increased by 4.9 percent on the year in March.
Crude oil futures traded roughly flat on Thursday, on media reports that Russia and Iran had said they were ready to further increase oil production.
A bevy of U.S. companies reported earnings early on, including General Motors and Verizon Communications. After Wall Street closes there will be results from Alphabet, Microsoft and Starbucks. The U.S. Treasury, meanwhile, will auction five-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS).
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