India, July 18 -- Reports on new residential construction and consumer sentiment and inflation expectations might be the focus on Friday. Investor sentiments might be influenced by brewing Middle East tensions, Russia-Ukraine war like situation.

Netflix earnings is scheduled after the close of today's trading.

Early cues from the U.S. Futures Index suggests that Wall Street might open slightly up.

Asian shares finished mostly up, while European shares are trading broadly higher.

In the Asian trading session, the dollar index pulled back slightly, while gold edged up slightly.

As of 8.10 am ET, the Dow futures were gaining 50.00 points, the S&P 500 futures were progressing 4.00 points and the Nasdaq 100 futures were climbing 11.25 point...