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NEW YORK — Stock futures are rising modestly ahead of a key reading on the overall output of the economy during the second quarter.
The advance early Friday comes a day after markets restarted a two-week rally that went dormant earlier in the week and pushed all the major indexes to their highest closes since last fall.
Asian markets rallied overnight, but European indexes are down modestly.
Investors will focus on the quarterly gross domestic product report. Analysts expect GDP fell during the second quarter, but the pace of the loss slowed.
Dow Jones industrial average futures are up 39, or 0.4 percent, 9,129. Standard & Poor's 500 index futures are up 2.40, or 0.2 percent, at 984.60, while Nasdaq 100 index futures are up 1.25, or 0.1 percent, at 1,608.00.
