LONDON (Reuters) - Futures for the Dow Jones industrial average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 ticked up 0.1-0.2 percent on Tuesday, pointing to a slight recovery on Wall Street after sharp falls on Monday.
* Retailer Big Lots Inc , which specializes 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 program. 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 9 a.m. EDT.
* U.S. consumer confidence data and U.S. new homes data due at 10 a.m. EDT.
* Crude oil futures 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)
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Wall Street futures point to slight recovery
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