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U.S. stock index futures edged lower Tuesday after a weaker-than-expected retail sales report and following Moody's ratings downgrade of a handful of euro zone nations.
Rating agency Moody's warned it may cut the triple-A ratings of France, the United Kingdom and Austria, while it downgraded the ratings of Italy, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia, Slovenia and Malta.
The ratings agency's move came a day after Greece's lawmakers approved a new round of austerity measures aimed at securing a bailout package.
Meanwhile, Germany's investor and analyst sentiment jumped to its highest since April 2011.
On the economic front, retail sales rose less than expected in January to 0.4 percent, according to the Commerce Department. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast retail sales climbing 0.7 percent last month.
Meanwhile, import prices rose 0.3 percent in January, according to the Labor Department as petroleum and food rebounded strongly. Economists polled by Reuters had expected prices to gain 0.2 percent.
Bank of America [BAC
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Meanwhile, Boeing [BA
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On the tech front, the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple's [AAPL
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Meanwhile, U.S. and European regulators approved Google's [GOOG
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Michael Kors [KORS
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Metlife [MET
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At 10 am, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will testify before the Senate Finance Committee on the fiscal year 2013 budget which includes extending the payroll tax cut and emergency unemployment insurance.
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Coming Up This Week:
TUESDAY: Fed's Plosser speaks, business inventories, 13-F filings due; Earnings from Metlife
WEDNESDAY: MBA mortgage applications, Empire state mfg survey, treasury international capital, industrial production, Fed's Fisher speaks, housing market index, oil inventories, FOMC minutes, credit card default rates reported; Earnings from Comcast, Abercrombie & Fitch, Deere, CBS, Netapp, Nvidia
THURSDAY: Housing starts, jobless claims, PPI, Bernanke speaks at FDIC hearing, Philadelphia Fed survey; earnings from GM, Applied Materials, Baidu, Nordstrom
FRIDAY: CPI, leading indicators; Earnings from Campbell Soup, Heinz
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