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Wall Street opens the new trading week coming off its best weekly performance in a month, with U.S. stock index futures pointing to a solidly positive opening Monday.
Global stocks rose and the dollar fell after the Group of 20 pledged to keep stimulus in place until recovery was assured.
Futures also responded positively to developments in the corporate world.
Sprint Nextel [S
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], a company in which it is joint partners with Comcast [CMCSA
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] and Bright House Networks. The partners are prepared to spend another $500 million, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
The paper also reported that Google, which also is a partner, isn't involved in the latest financing round.
Sprint shares jumped 3.9 percent in premarket trading.
Altria [MO
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Las Vegas Sands [LVS
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Shares of retailer Gap [GPS
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Crude oil prices [US@CL.1
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As the end of the year approaches, more attention will be paid to just how strongly stocks have come back from the depths they reached back in March: Both the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 are on pace to chalk up their best annual percentage gains since 2003.
No major economic releases are on the calendar for Monday.
The Treasury begins another record-setting week of auctions, as it sells $91 billion in 3-year notes, 10-year notes, and 30-year bonds beginning. Shortly after 1 pm New York time, we'll get the results of the first leg of those sales, with $40 billion in 3-year notes being sold.
The most notable of the day's earnings reports will come after the bell, as we get the latest quarterly numbers from Electronic Arts [ERTS
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Nokia may be a stock to watch, as it announced it will replace 14 million phone chargers made by China's BYD because of problems that could result in electric shock for consumers.
Reuters reported that Kraft Foods [KFT
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A deal between CNBC parent General Electric [GE
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— Peter Schacknow, Senior Producer, CNBC Breaking News Desk
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