Isabel Wang is a Markets Reporter for MarketWatch.
U.S. stock index futures were slightly higher early Wednesday as traders digested the producer-price index which showed a measure of wholesale prices rose more than expected in September, while also awaiting the minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last policy meeting, due out later in the session, and a widely-followed consumer-price index report on Thursday.
See: Producer price inflation comes in a little hotter in September, highest annual rate in five months “Markets continued to grind higher as the headwinds of the Middle Eastern conflict were neutralized by a further softening of rhetoric from the Federal Reserve,” said Richard Hunter, head of markets at Interactive Investor.
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