Futures higher ahead of U.S. jobless claims data

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits is expected to have slipped by 4,000 to 265,000 last week, continuing a trend of being below the 300,000 mark for the 75th consecutive week. Canadian housing price data for June is also due at 8:30 a.m. ET Canada's main stock index on Wednesday broke a five-day winning streak that had lifted it to a 13-month high, with heavyweight energy and financial stocks leading a broad pullback as oil prices fell. The Day Ahead newsletter http://lin