Stock index futures rose on Friday after French President Nicolas Sarkozy hinted at a deal to resolve the Greek debt crisis, which has hampered equities and worried investors over a possible credit dry-up.

* Sarkozy said there was no time to lose on agreeing on a program for Greece, suggesting a deal needed to be reached in July at the latest.

* We want to go as quickly as possible without fixing a date, Sarkozy said after meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, adding that the pair had the same position on Greece.

* The euro reversed its recent trend to gain more than 0.5 percent against the U.S. dollar, and European equities turned positive for the day after Sarkozy's statement.

* S&P 500 futures rose 10.3 points and were above fair value, a formula that evaluates pricing by taking into account interest rates, dividends and time to expiration of the contract. Dow Jones industrial average futures gained 90 points and Nasdaq 100 futures added 16.5 points.

* Economic data on tap includes the Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers preliminary June consumer sentiment index, due at 9:55 a.m. EDT. Economists in a Reuters survey expect a reading of 74.0 compared with 74.3 in the final May report.

* Shares of Research In Motion Ltd dropped more than 15 percent in premarket trading after the BlackBerry maker posted a drop in quarterly profit and revenue missed the company's own limp forecast.

(Additional reporting by European bureaus; editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)

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