Global market report - January 9
US stock futures point to a small rise at the open as trade talks between US and China enter their third day. Federal Reserve minutes are due today from the last meeting of 2018, when interest rates were raised by another quarter point, the fourth such rise of the year. Fed chairman Jerome Powell, who locked horns with Donald Trump at the end of last year, will speak before The Economic Club of Washington after the stock market opens on Thursday.