Stock index futures signal early gains

Stock index futures signal early gains

(Reuters) Stock index futures forked to a aloft open on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for a S&P 500 adult 0.43 percent, Dow Jones futures adult 0.26 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures adult 0.38 percent during 0945 GMT.

* North Korean personality Kim Jong-il died of a heart conflict while on a sight trip, state media reported on Monday, sparking evident regard over who is in control of a reserved state and a chief program.

* Asian bonds forsaken on a news, while European shares topsy-turvy early waste and edged aloft in morning trade, crude a pointy 1-1/2 week sell-off, as investors bought adult shares in sectors seen as defensive, such as Unilever and Telefonica .

* A taxation mangle for 160 million U.S. workers was in doubt on Monday in a face of clever antithesis from Republicans in a House of Representatives who have deserted a two-month prolongation overwhelmingly authorized by a Senate over a weekend.

* Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, an financier in some of a world's tip companies, on Monday denounced a $300 million interest squeeze in fast-growing microblogging site Twitter, gaining another foothold in a tellurian media industry.

* Procter & Gamble Co , a world's largest builder of domicile products, has halted full-time employing for this mercantile year, a association mouthpiece said, confirming an progressing report.

* Talks over intensity item sales as partial of AT&T Inc's efforts to get capitulation of a $39 billion squeeze of T-Mobile USA have left cold, according to The Wall Street Journal on Sunday.

* On a macro side, investors awaited a National Association of Home Builders' Dec housing marketplace index.

* A convene in U.S. bonds fizzled, withdrawal vital indexes with medium gains on Friday, as Wall Street was ripped between wish that U.S. mercantile information signals improved times forward and fear Europe's debt predicament will overflow universe economies.

* The Dow Jones industrial normal <.dji> was down 2.42 points, or 0.02 percent, during 11,866.39. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.spx> was adult 3.91 points, or 0.32 percent, during 1,219.66. The Nasdaq Composite Index <.ixic> was adult 14.32 points, or 0.56 percent, during 2,555.33.

(Reporting by Blaise Robinson; Editing by Jon Loades-Carter)

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