New Delhi, Jan. 5 -- The US stock market is expected to open Monday's trading session, January 6, on a positive note as investors weighed up the potential repercussions of the US military operation in Venezuela over the weekend, which led to the capture of President Nicolas Maduro.

In pre-market trade, all three key benchmarks were trading in the green. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were up 14 points, S&P 500 futures rose 0.3%, and Nasdaq-100 futures advanced 0.7%.

Among individual stocks, US oil companies were by far the biggest risers in the S&P 500 in premarket trading. Chevron, the last US oil major still operating in Venezuela, was up around 8% ahead of the open, even as crude prices were largely unmoved.

Meanwhile, oilfiel...