Germany's DAX edged 0.1% higher to 24,315.90, while the CAC 40 in Paris slipped 0.2% to 8,135.23. Britain's FTSE 100 shed 0.3% to 9,864.71. The future for the S&P 500 was up 0.4% while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.2%. In Asian trading, Tokyo's Nikkei 225 gained 1.8% to 50,402.39, helped by hefty gains for computer chip makers and other companies benefiting from the boom for artificial intelligence. Semiconductor maker Tokyo Electron jumped 6.3% while chip testing equipment maker Ad ...