Stock futures signal higher Wall Street open

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock ExchangeLONDON (Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open for equities on Wall Street on Friday, with futures for the S&P 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 rising 0.2 to 0.4 percent. Major emerging powers stood ready on Friday to pledge money to bolster the International Monetary Fund’s crisis-fighting war chest, though Brazil was holding out for promises that their voting power at the global lender would increase. The Economic Cycle Research Institute releases its weekly index of economic activity for April 13 at 10:30 a.m. EDT. In the prior week, the index read 125.7. …



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