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<img src=" http://www.joplinglobeonline.com/images/zope/wednesday.gif" border=0> Futures mixed ahead of data, weak FedEx forecast

Anonymous The Joplin Globe Wed Jun 17, 2009, 07:56 AM CDT

(AP) — Investors are finding more reason for caution as questions linger over how quickly the economy can bounce back.

Stock futures are mixed but pointing to a mostly lower open Wednesday as investors await economic data on inflation and trade. Investors also will be examining President Barack Obama’s proposal to reshape regulations covering major financial institutions.

A weaker-than-expected profit forecast and cautious comments about the economy from FedEx Corp. weighed on the market.

Overseas markets were mostly lower.

The U.S. data ahead of the opening bill could offer investors insight into the well-being of the economy. Stocks have fallen this week after carving only modest gains last week. The selling has inserted a break into a three-month rally that shuttled the Standard & Poor’s 500 index higher by 40 percent from 12-year lows. Traders are asking whether expectations for an economic recovery had been too rosy.

Ahead of the data, Dow Jones industrial average futures fell 34, or 0.4 percent, to 8,480. Standard & Poor’s 500 index futures fell 1.30, or 0.1 percent, to 906.50, while Nasdaq 100 index futures rose 7.00, or 0.5 percent, to 1,451.25.

Consumer prices are expected to rise in May due to a jump in the cost of gasoline. Wall Street economists expect the Consumer Price Index to increase to 0.3 percent for May, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.

The deficit in the broadest measure of trade likely will fall for the first three months of this year as the recession weighed on demand for foreign goods. The nation’s current account deficit likely shrank to $85 billion in the first quarter, according to economists. That would be down sharply from an imbalance of $132.8 billion in the final three months of last year.

The government reports are due at 8:30 a.m. EDT.

Investors will be looking for insights into the White House’s plan for remaking the rules that govern Wall Street. The president is expected to outline a plan Wednesday that would give new powers to the Federal Reserve to supervise large financial institutions considered too big to fail. It also would establish a consumer protection agency to govern lending and credit and new rules that would reach into unregulated regions of the financial markets.

FedEx said it posted a bigger fiscal fourth-quarter loss, weighed down by hefty one-time charges, but adjusted results came in well above expectations on Wall Street.

FedEx Corp. CEO Fred Smith said in a statement “there are signs that the worst of the recession is behind us.” But the company expects earnings well below analysts’ views in the next quarter.

In other market action, bond prices mostly fell. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, rose to 3.67 percent from 3.65 percent late Tuesday.

Major markets overseas mostly lost ground. In afternoon trading, Britain’s FTSE 100 fell 0.8 percent, Germany’s DAX index lost 0.8 percent, and France’s CAC-40 fell 1.2 percent. Japan’s Nikkei stock average rose 0.9 percent.

The dollar was mixed against other major currencies, while gold prices rose.

Light, sweet crude fell 67 cents to $69.80 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

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