Stock futures slightly negative Wednesday morning - CNBC

Stock futures were just under the flatline Wednesday morning.

Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average were down 20 points, or 0.06%, while S&P 500 futures were 0.06% lower and Nasdaq 100 futures were down 0.07%.

It's time to rethink bonds, according to the BlackRock Investment Institute, which said "the lure of fixed income is strong" right now.

And investors don't have to go far up the risk spectrum to receive it," Philipp Hildebrand, vice chairman of BlackRock, and Jean Boivin, head of the BlackRock Investment Institute, wrote in a note last week.

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures opened just 2 points higher, or 0.01%.

S&P 500 futures were up 0.03% and Nasdaq 100 futures added 0.05%