Bloomberg (30/12) -- U.S. stock-index futures were little changed, after the Standard & Poors 500 Index advanced for a second week, heading toward its biggest annual receive since 1997.
Crocs Inc. rose 6.1 percent in pre-market New York trading after saying its chief executive officer will retire and Blackstone Group LP will invest $200 million in convertible preferred stock in the maker of radiant plastic clogs. Twitter Inc. lengthy last weeks decline, falling 2.5 percent.
Futures on the Standard & Poors 500 Index expiring in March fell less than 0.1 percent to 1,836.30 at 10:44 a.m. in London. The S&P 500 climbed to a record last week and is poised for a 29 percent get this year. Dow Jones Industrial Average contracts added 5 points, less than 0.1 percent, to 16,426.
Companies in the S&P 500 are worth $3.7 trillion more than they were 12 months ago following a year when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke signaled the curtailment of Economic stimulus. The bull market, born at the depths of the credit crisis, enters its sixth year fueled by zero-percent interest rates and investor confidence.
Pending house sales, the number of contracts Americans signed to buy previously-owned homes, rose 1 percent in November, the first monthly profit since May, according to the median estimate of 26 economists surveyed by Bloomberg, before a report due at 10 a.m. in Washington.