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Futures are trading higher heading into the opening bell this morning on what is still another relatively light morning for earnings data.  The economic calendar was on the busy side this morning as Jobless Claims, Housing Starts, and the Philly Fed Manufacturing report were all just released and they ALL came in better than expected.

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Equities had a big day yesterday with the S&P 500 up over 1% and the Nasdaq higher by close to 2%.  One notable area of weakness, though, was in semiconductors.  In a divergence you don’t see very often, despite the broader market gains, the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) finished the day down marginally. This type of divergence is so uncommon in fact that you have to go all the way back to October 2007 to find the last time the SOX was down on a day when the Nasdaq was up over 1.5%.