Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stock-index futures advanced as MasterCard Inc. reported better-than-estimated earnings and lower money-market rates lifted financial companies.
MasterCard, the world's second-biggest credit-card company, rallied as much as 9.1 percent in after-hours trading as third- quarter profit exceeded projections on higher overseas revenue. Citigroup Inc., the second-biggest U.S. bank, increased 2.6 percent in Europe as interbank lending rates in Asia and Europe declined. Alcoa Inc. and General Motors Corp. climbed at least 3 percent before today's presidential elections.
Standard & Poor's 500 Index futures expiring in December added 2.1 percent to 989.80 as of 11:47 a.m. in London. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose 2 percent to 9,514 and Nasdaq-100 Index futures advanced 2.4 percent to 1,373.
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