The major US equity benchmarks are now being called to start the day 0.2% higher on average.

Citadel said yesterday evening that it will sell about 27.4m shares in ETrade Financial.

Analysts at Goldman Sachs have lifted their price target on Linkedin to $220 from $157 per share before.

Weekly initial US unemployment claims dropped by 18,000 to 332,000 in the week ending on March 9th, versus a consensus estimate of 350,000.

Producer prices increased by 0.2% month-on-month at the 'core' level in February, one tenth of a percentage point more than expected.

The country´s current account deficit fell to -$110.4bn in the last three months of 2012 (Consensus: -$112.5bn), from -$112.4bn. The previous month´s numbers, however, were revised higher from a preliminary estimate of $107.5bn.

Front month West Texas crude futures are now rising by 0.09% to $92.44/barrel on the NYMEX.

10 year US Treasury yields are up by 4 basis points to 2.06% at the moment.

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