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A truck carries an expedition container to Qingdao Port on January 14, 2019 in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China.
The data comes as investors monitor the health indices of the Chinese economy, after growth returned to 6.6% last year.
Retail sales and capital investment in the world's second-largest economy both grew stronger than expected on Thursday.
Trade talks between Washington and Beijing also weighed on the market climate after President Donald Trump declared that he was in no hurry to reach an agreement.
Elsewhere, General Electric lost more than 3% of the market before commercialization after the industrial giant published forecasts of lower than expected results for 2019.
In the United States, investors are likely to be watching a new round of economic data closely.
Weekly jobless claims and February import prices will be released at 8:30 am ET. New home sales for January are expected to follow a little later in the session.
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