U.S. stock index futures inched higher on Tuesday ahead of a two-day Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting and as investors awaited grocery delivery app Instacart's Nasdaq debut to assess a potential recovery in the IPO market.

The U.S. Justice Department on Monday questioned a Verizon executive about the company's decision to always pre-install Google's Chrome browser with Google search on its mobile phones, as the government sought to show that Alphabet's Google broke antitrust law to maintain its dominance in online search.

Several Southeast Asian companies are considering listing in the United States, banking on strong investor appetite for emerging market growth in the absence of Chinese stock offerings.

Macy's said on Monday it would hire more than 38,000 full and part-time seasonal positions for the holiday season, compared with 41,000 last year as U.S. retailers gear up for the busy shopping period amid a tight consumer spending environment.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department on Monday objected to removing the public from the court during some discussions of how Google prices online advertising, one of the issues at the heart of the antitrust trial under way in Washington.

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema on Friday declined to order a Justice Department official to stay out of the government's advertising antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet's Google but said the department "should think about it."