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March 13 (Reuters) - Futures for Canada's main stock indexpointed to a higher opening on Tuesday ahead of a U.S. inflationreading later in the day.

March futures on the S&P TSX index were up 0.3percent at 7:35 a.m. ET.

Investors will be closely watching consumer prices data forclues on the pace of Federal Reserve interest rate hikes thisyear.

Canada's main stock index closed slightly higher on Monday,as gold producers overcame earlier declines and helped offsetenergy shares that were dragged lower by the price of oil.

Dow Jones Industrial Average e-mini futures were up0.23 percent at 7:15 a.m. ET, while S&P 500 e-mini futureswere up 0.2 percent and Nasdaq 100 e-mini futureswere up 0.11 percent.

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U.S. President Donald Trump spoke on Monday with CanadianPrime Minister Justin Trudeau about the steel and aluminumimport tariffs Trump announced last week, the White House said.

ANALYST RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Cargojet Inc: CIBC raises price target to C$74 fromC$62

TSO3 Inc: RBC cuts target price to C$1.75 from C$2

Urthecast Corp: Canaccord Genuity cuts to hold fromspeculative buy

COMMODITIES AT 7:35 a.m. ET

Gold futures: $1,1319.2; -0.16 pct

US crude: $61.37; rose 0.02 percent

Brent crude: $64.91; fell 0.06 percent

LME 3-month copper: $6920; rose 0.1 percent

U.S. ECONOMIC DATA DUE ON TUESDAY

0830 Core CPI mm, SA for Feb: Expected 0.2 pct; Prior 0.3pct

0830 Core CPI yy, NSA for Feb: Expected 1.8 pct; Prior 1.8pct

0830 CPI Index, NSA for Feb: Expected 248.936; Prior 247.867

0830 Core CPI Index, SA for Feb: Prior 255.29

0830 CPI mm, SA for Feb: Expected 0.2 pct; Prior 0.5 pct

0830 CPI yy, NSA for Feb: Expected 2.2 pct; Prior 2.1 pct

0830 Real weekly earnings mm for Feb: Expected 0.3 pct;Prior -0.8 pct

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Canadian markets directory($1= C$1.29)(Reporting by Debanjan Bose; Editing by Bernard Orr)