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Gainers

• United States Oil (NYSE: USO) up 0.23 percent to $34.23. Crude prices creeping higher on a shaky U.S. dollar and inventory data today.
  
  Crude saw a drop of 4.7 million barrels to 332.9 million barrels. Analysts were expected a more modest draw-down of 1.75 million barrels.
• Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF) up 0.51 percent to $12.85.
  
  Citi (NYSE: C) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) bouncing higher today, following a sell off earlier in the week on earnings results and overall market weakness.

Strong earnings results and another round of corporate deals led stocks higher Wednesday.

Stock index futures were little changed on Wednesday amid earnings results from Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo.

Oil prices fell to near $81 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as a global stock market rally stalled ahead of key corporate earnings results.

Investors weighed upbeat news on home construction against earnings results that showed the continued impact of the downturn.

Stock futures are trading in a narrow range as investors received mixed signals from the latest round of earnings reports.

Disney, Time Warner, News Corp. on tap to report earnings this...