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By Will Horner and Xie Yu
U.S. stock futures were little changed Wednesday as investors awaited fresh comments from Jerome Powell a day after the Federal Reserve chairman soothed unsettled markets.
Futures tied to the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the technology-heavy Nasdaq-100 inched up 0.1%.
Stock markets have wavered in recent days following a strong start to the year, with highflying tech companies leading declines. Investors said a rise in government bond yields, driven by improving growth prospects and rising inflation expectations, has accelerated a rotation out of the tech stocks that led markets higher during the pandemic, and into the stocks best placed to benefit from an end to lockdowns.