LONDON (ShareCast) - -General Electric and American Express quarterly revenue figures below analysts’ consensus.

-Release of existing home sales data scheduled for 3pm.

The main US equity benchmarks are now being called to open ‘mixed’, with light gains in the Nasdaq 100 but the opposite on the Dow Jones Industrial and S&P 500.

The former is being helped by gains in Intel, Microsoft and IBM, following their latest quarterly results. The latter, on the other hand, are being weighed down by a bevy of rather weak company results out from the likes of American Express, Fifth Third or Flextronics.

General Electric’s latest quarterly results have also come in below what was expected.

MACROECONOMY

Existing home sales data for the month of December will be published at 3pm.

OTHER MARKETS

10 year US Treasuries are no falling by 10/32 dollars, with yields at 2.01%.

Front month West Texas crude futures are falling 0.58% to $99.82/barrel.

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