(Bloomberg) -- U.S. stock-index futures gained on expectation earnings will keep beating analysts' estimates after PepsiCo Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. posted results that topped forecasts.
PepsiCo, the world's second-largest soft-drink maker, advanced as quarterly net income rose 16 percent. Amazon.com, the biggest online retailer, jumped after increasing its 2007 profit and sales forecasts. Of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index companies that have reported, more than two thirds have posted better first-quarter results than analysts anticipated.
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