[BRIEFING.COM] Stocks futures continue to chop around in negative territory, despite the recent release of a solid piece of data.

Factory orders for September increased 0.9%, which is better than the 0.8% increase that was widely expected. It also marked an improvement from August's 0.8% increase.

Factory orders make up the only piece of data for release on today's economic calendar.

Early movers: Trading up -- BNI +28.3%, DDRX +24.3%, BDK +24%, SNIC +17.2%, TXRH +13%, DLLR +12.2%, RSO +10.3%, USEG +10%, RIC +9.5%, HEV +9.4%, CTSH +7.8%; Trading down -- ETM -15.4%, QCOR -14%, AIB -12.4%, TNL -11.6%, IRE -11.1%, MAIL -10.5%, ENR -10.2%, FUN -10%, RBS -9.6%