U.S. Stock Market Futures Slip Ahead of the Fed's July Meeting Minutes Release

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There is a debate among Fed officials over when to taper pandemic-era asset purchases.

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U.S. stock market futures were indicating a lower open Wednesday, ahead of the release of minutes from the July meeting of the Federal Reserve’s key monetary policy committee.

In Asia, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 0.47% while the Shanghai Composite lifted 1.11% and Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 increased 0.59%. The FTSE 100 in London was 0.3% lower as the pan-European Stoxx 600 hovered around flat. The CAC 40 in Paris moved 0.3% into the red and Frankfurt’s DAX dropped 0.1%.