Asia markets rise: S&P 500 futures up 0.07%
Asian trade lifts U.S. index futures, with S&P 500 futures up 0.07% and Nasdaq futures up 0.14%, while USD/JPY gains 0.13% and WTI rises to 85.39.
Asian session market picture.
US index futures: S and P futures is up 0.07 percent, Nasdaq futures is up 0.14 percent, Dow futures is up 0.03 percent and Russell futures is up 0.07 percent.
In currencies, the dollar index is unchanged at 0 percent, dollar yen is up 0.13 percent, USD/CNH is up 0.07 percent and AUD/USD is up 0.06 percent.
In oil, WTI crude is at 85.39, up 0.45 percent and Brent crude is at 92.37, up 0.22 percent.
Asian volume leaders: Alibaba up 0.62 percent, SoftBank Group up 0.06 percent, Xiaomi up 0.07 percent, Samsung Electronics down 2.92 percent and Mitsubishi UFJ up 0.55 percent.