RTRS: U.S. stocks seen opening higher; earnings in focus
* Dow Jones futures DJc1 up 0.8 percent at 1032 GMT, S&P 500 futures SPc1 up 0.9 percent, Nasdaq futures NDc1 up 0.2 percent, pointing to rising U.S. stock markets on Tuesday.
* S&P 500 .SPX companies due to report quarterly results include technology bellwethers Sun Microsystems (JAVA.O) and Yahoo (YHOO.O) as well as drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY.N), chemical maker DuPont (DD.N) and telecoms group Verizon (VZ.N). For the full Jan 27 S&P 500 diary, see [ID:nL29133957]
* On Monday, American Express (AXP.N) [ID:nN26323468], Texas Instruments (TXN.N) [ID:nN26383880] and Netflix (NFLX.O) [ID:nN26542836] reported better than expected results.
* Economic data due on Tuesday include the S&P Case/Shiller Home Price Index for November at 1400 GMT, the Richmond Fed's manufacturing and services indexes for January at 1500 GMT and consumer confidence for January, also at 1500 GMT. ECONUS
* The Federal Reserve's monetary policy setting Federal Open Market Committee begins its two-day meeting on interest rates.
