Список проголосовавших за комментарий " <table class="BriefingDataTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr> <td class="tickerColumn"> </td> <td class="articleColumn">S&P futures vs fair value: +0.80. Nasdaq futures vs fair value: -0.60.<p>After pointing to a lower open earlier this morning, equity futures now indicate a slightly higher start for the stock market on Wednesday following a hotter than expected ADP National Employment Report. The S&P 500 futures trade one point above fair value.</p><p>The ADP National Employment Report showed an increase of 298,000 in February (Briefing.com consensus 180,000) while the January reading was revised to 261,000 from 246,000. The ADP reading precedes Friday's more influential Employment Situation Report for February, which is widely considered the last potential barrier to a rate hike in March.</p><p>U.S. Treasuries slipped to fresh overnight lows in the wake of the release. The benchmark 10-yr yield trades five basis points higher at 2.57%.</p><p>Crude oil also hovers near its fresh low, down 1.4%, following the latest American Petroleum Institute (API) reading on Tuesday evening. The data showed a crude oil inventory build of 11.6 million barrels, which was much higher than the anticipated build of 1.6 million. WTI crude trades at $52.39/bbl ahead of today's crude oil inventory report from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), which will be released at 10:30 ET.</p><p>On the corporate front, <strong>Caterpillar</strong> (CAT 93.80, -2.13) is down 2.2% in pre-market action following a <em>New York Times</em> article indicating that the company has been accused of tax fraud in a report to federal investigators. Elsewhere, on the earnings front, <strong>The Children's Place</strong> (PLCE 108.50, +8.60) has spiked 8.6% after reporting better than expected earnings and issuing upbeat guidance. Also of note, the company announced a new stock buyback and a dividend increase.</p><p>Today's last economic report will be January Wholesale Inventories (Briefing.com consensus -0.1%). The report will cross the wires at 10:00 ET.</p></td> </tr></table>"