Stocks rose for a second session Thursday on easing geopolitical fears, placing the Dow Industrials on track for a narrow weekly gain.

Editor’s Note: The future prices of benchmark tracking ETFs, earnings, lede and the headline were updated in the story. U.S. stock futures declined after paring earlier gains on Wednesday following Tuesday's sharp sell-off.

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U.S. stock futures declined on Monday after a positive close on Friday. Futures of major benchmark indices were trading lower. Tensions flared up at the Federal Reserve after the Chair Jerome Powell said on Sunday that the Department of Justice had threatened the central bank with "criminal indictment" over his testimony before Congress,

"If you get double the stock market, it really will reflect the economy doubling," Ben Emons, founder and CIO of FedWatch Advisors, told Yahoo Finance's Opening Bid. Emons warned that for the market to deliver another year of outsized, double-digit gains, the US economy would effectively need to catch fire.

It is often the case that U.S. equity index futures rally off the lows following a session when American investors were on holiday. The buy-the-dip mentality kicks in, particularly if the reason for the initial retreat is geopolitical.

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