Encouraging quarterly earnings from bigger rival Walmart Inc WMT.N and home improvement chain Home Depot Inc HD.N boosted the benchmark S&P 500 .SPX and blue-chip Dow .DJI in the previous session. Target Corp TGT.N fell 2.2% in trading before the bell after reporting a 90% fall in quarterly earnings and missing comparable sales estimates as its inflation-hit customers reined in spending on discretionary goods. ET, is expected to show retail sales rose at a reduced pace of 0.1% in July, after climbing 1% in June.