Wall St futures point to slight recovery; data eyed

* Futures for the Dow Jones industrial average DJc1, the S&P 500 SPc1 and the Nasdaq 100 NDc1 tick up 0.1-0.2 percent, pointing to a slight recovery on Wall Street after sharp falls on Monday.

* Retailer Big Lots Inc , which specialises in sales of excess inventory, is the only S&P 500 company scheduled to report.

* Also among companies in focus is Anadarko Petroleum which announced a $5 billion share repurchase programme. Its shares in Frankfurt traded 0.8 percent higher.

* Hewlett-Packard expects to close its $13.25 billion buy of Electronic Data Systems Corp on Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported.

* Case-Shiller home price index for June due at 1300 GMT.

* U.S. consumer confidence data and U.S. new homes data due at 1400 GMT.

* Crude oil futures CLc1 fall $1.35 a barrel to $113.73, and the dollar rises to a 6-month high against the euro . (Reporting by Sitaraman Shankar; Editing by David Cowell)