Stock futures are slightly higher as investors pore over a multitude of earnings reports from last night and this morning. Not to be lost in the latest wave of corporate reports is the economic data that was just released There were 257,000 weekly initial jobless claims, versus the expected 245,000. Wholesale inventories for March were down 0.1%, versus expectations for an increase of 0.2%. Durable goods orders were up 0.7% overall in March, versus expectations for them to be up 1.3%, while the core reading that removes transportation items was down 0.2%, versus expectations of 0.4%. In late morning pre-market trading, Dow futures are 34 points above fair value, Nasdaq futures are 9 points above fair value and S&P futures are 3 points above fair value.