U.S. stocks: Chipper after the long weekend

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Investors and traders appear to be in a good mood after the long weekend.

U.S. stock futures were slightly higher ahead of another round of quarterly earnings.

Investors are awaiting results from Halliburton (HAL, Fortune 500), Hasbro (HAS) and Kimberly-Clark (KMB, Fortune 500) ahead of the market open.

Netflix (NFLX) will be reporting after the market close. The stock has been one of Wall Street’s big momentum plays, and the top performer in the SP 500 last year with an incredible 269% rise. But tech stocks have been volatile over the past several weeks, and Netflix shares are down 6% this year.

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There are many other big earnings announcements set for later in the week. McDonald’s (MCD, Fortune 500), Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) and Facebook (FB, Fortune 500) will all be reporting.

But it’s a slower week for economic data releases, with no major releases set for Monday. The latest existing home sales report will be released on Tuesday.

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All the major European markets were closed Monday for the Easter holiday.

Some Asian markets were open, but they weren’t moving in unison. The Shanghai Composite index fell by 1.5% — but other major indexes were little changed.

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