U.S. stock-index futures traded narrowly higher on Tuesday, ahead of a busy day for earnings and the start of a Federal Reserve policy meeting.
Companies posting quarterly results early on Tuesday include 3M, Eli Lilly, Fiat Chrysler and Lockheed Martin.
Apple will post earnings on Tuesday after Wall Street closes, along with AT&T, eBay and Twitter.
Earlier in the day, oil major BP reported a pretax loss of $865 million for the first quarter of 2016.
The U.S. Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will start its two-day meeting on Tuesday. It is not expected to raise interest rates, but may signal the possibility of doing so in June.
"The recent drift higher in 10-year Treasury yields (to 1.9 percent) and in breakeven rates (to 1.66 percent) just might prompt a marginally less dovish message than in March; a possibility which will probably give markets a slightly risk-off sense today," Kit Juckes, a strategist at Societe Generale, said in a note on Tuesday.
U.S. data due on Tuesday include durable goods orders for March, the Case-Shiller 20-city index and the consumer confidence index for April.
Crude futures rose on Tuesday, after Saudi Arabia, OPEC's de facto leader, announced a plan on Monday to diversify its economy away from oil production.
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