Stocks Open Down as Fed Fails to Lift Spirits
July 12, 2012 at 09:33 AM EDT
U.S. stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Thursday as investors who continued to fret about a slowdown in economic growth were left uneasy after the minutes of the June 20 meeting of the Federal Reserve's interest rate setting committee showed no appetite among committee members for a resumption of quantitative easing.