Список проголосовавших за комментарий " S&P futures vs fair value: +4.30. Nasdaq futures vs fair value: +7.10.<p>Crude oil has nudged equity futures higher this morning, but caution ahead of today's official rate decision from the Federal Open Market Committee has kept gains in check. The S&P 500 futures trade four points, or 0.2%, above fair value.</p><p>WTI crude trades 1.9% higher at $48.64/bbl this morning after the American Petroleum Institute (API) reported an unexpected draw of 0.531 million barrels on Tuesday evening. The bump puts the energy component on track to break its streak of six consecutive retreats, but that could change later this morning when the Energy Information Administration (EIA) releases its weekly inventory report. The report will cross the wires at 10:30 ET.</p><p>The two-day FOMC meeting in Washington will come to a close today with the official rate decision scheduled for 14:00 ET. It's pretty much a given that the U.S. central bank will increase the Fed funds target range by a quarter point, leaving investors more interested in the Fed's dot plot, which shows expectations for future rate changes.</p><p>U.S. Treasuries have seen an uptick in buying interest ahead of today's action with the benchmark 10-yr yield trading two basis points lower at 2.58%.</p><p>On the data front, the weekly MBA Mortgage Applications Index, which was released earlier this morning, increased 3.1% to follow last week's 3.3% uptick.</p><p>In addition, investors will receive February CPI (Briefing.com consensus 0.1%), February Retail Sales (Briefing.com consensus 0.1%), and March Empire Manufacturing (Briefing.com consensus 14.5) at 8:30 ET, with January Business Inventories (Briefing.com consensus 0.3%) and March NAHB Housing Market Index (Briefing.com consensus 65) following at 10:00 ET.</p><p>In U.S. corporate news:</p><ul><li><strong>Intel</strong> (INTC 35.06, -0.12): -0.3% after the company's stock was downgraded to 'Neutral' from 'Outperform' at Credit Suisse.</li><li><strong>Hostess Brands</strong> (TWNK 15.85, -0.08): -0.5% after worse than expected earnings overshadowed better than expected revenues.</li><li><strong>Fogo De Chao</strong> (FOGO 14.00, +0.75): +5.7% after beating both top and bottom line estimates.</li></ul><p>Reviewing overnight developments:</p><ul><li>Equity indices in the Asia-Pacific region ended the midweek session on a mixed note, but trading ranges were narrow once again, as investors awaited the latest rate decision and policy statement from the Federal Reserve. The Bank of Japan will follow, releasing its own policy update on Thursday. Japan's Nikkei -0.2%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng -0.2%, China's Shanghai Composite +0.1%, India's Sensex -0.2%.<ul><li>In economic data:<ul><li>Japan's January Industrial Production -0.4% month-over-month (expected -0.8%; last -0.8%) and January Capacity Utilization +0.1% month-over-month (last 0.6%)</li><li>Australia's February New Motor Vehicle Sales -2.7% month-over-month (last 0.6%) and March Westpac Consumer Sentiment 0.1% (last 2.3%)</li><li>New Zealand's Q4 Current Account as % of GDP -2.7% (expected -2.8%; last -2.9%)</li><li>South Korea's February Unemployment Rate 4.0% (expected 3.7%; last 3.6%)</li><li>Singapore's Q4 Unemployment Rate 2.2% (last 2.2%)</li></ul></li><li>In news:<ul><li>China's Premier Li Keqiang called for an improvement in Sino-US relations. Mr. Li added that China's 6.5% GDP growth target is ambitious given external risks.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul><ul><li>Major European indices trade near their flat lines while Italy's MIB and Spain's IBEX outperform. Germany's DAX +0.1%, France's CAC +0.1%, UK's FTSE +0.2%, Italy's MIB +0.7%, Spain's IBEX +0.5%.<ul><li>In economic data:<ul><li>Eurozone Q4 Employment Change +0.3% quarter-over-quarter (expected 0.2%; last 0.2%); +1.1% year-over-year (consensus 1.5%; last 1.2%)</li><li>UK's January Average Earnings Index + Bonus 2.2% (expected 2.4%; last 2.6%). February Claimant Count Change -11,300 (expected -5,000; last -41,400) and January Unemployment Rate 4.7% (expected 4.8%; previous 4.8%)</li><li>Italy's February CPI +0.4% month-over-month (expected 0.3%; last 0.3%); +1.6% year-over-year (consensus 1.5%; last 1.5%). January Retail Sales +1.4% month-over-month (expected 0.1%; last -0.5%); -0.1% year-over-year (last -0.2%)</li><li>France's February CPI +0.1% month-over-month, as expected (last 0.1%)</li><li>Swiss February PPI -0.2% month-over-month (expected 0.4%; last 0.4%); +1.3% year-over-year (consensus 1.8%; last 0.8%)</li></ul></li><li>In news:<ul><li>In Scotland, a YouGov Times survey showed that 57.0% of voters support remaining in the United Kingdom.</li><li>French presidential candidate Francois Fillon was placed under a formal investigation for diversion of public funds.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>"