On Tuesday, stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open for equities on Wall Street with futures for the S&P 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 down 0.1 to 0.2 percent.

Boeing Co (BA.N) disclosed that it has signed its largest ever commercial airplane order with Lion Air of Indonesia in a deal worth $22.4 billion.

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama and Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping will hold talks that may boost the international stature of Beijing's leader-in-waiting while testing ability of Obama for balancingthorny U.S.-China diplomacy with election-year pressures.

A Wall Street Journal report said Apple Inc (AAPL.O) plans to announce a fourth-generation (4G) version of its iPad in the first week of March though Apple was unavailable for comment outside regular business hours.

Google Inc's (GOOG.O) $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc (MMI.N) was approved by U.S. and European regulators who said they would keep a sharp eye on the web search giant for ensuring patents critical to the telecommunications industry would be licensed at fair prices.

U.S. stocks rose on Monday, with the S&P 500 near seven-month highs. The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI gained 72.81 points, or 0.57 percent, to 12,874.04. The S&P 500 Index .INX gained 9.12 points, or 0.68 percent, to 1,351.76. The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC rose 27.51 points, or 0.95 percent, to 2,931.39.