US stock futures are near the flat line Friday morning after yesterday's break out of the tight range to five-year highs in the S&P (INDEXSP:.INX). Action could be slow and choppy today ahead of the first options expiration of 2013. Earnings season rumbles on with a few big names reporting this morning. Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) was the latest big-name bank to report and the company came out with better-than-expected numbers that pushed the stock higher pre-market. Traders will be watching to see whether the report can be enough to hold the group higher after some mixed action in the ...