(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures were lower on Thursday, weighed down by concerns about Greece's ability to strike a deal with its creditors.
* European officials downplayed talk that Greece and its lenders were drafting an agreement that would provide Athens much-needed debt relief.
* Investors also await weekly U.S. jobless claims and pending home sales data for April.
* Analysts expect the U.S. Labor Department to report that jobless claims fell to 270,000 last week from 274,000 in the prior week. The data is expected at 8:30 a.m. ET (1230 GMT)
* Pending home sales are expected to have risen 0.9 percent in April after rising 1.1 percent in March. The data from the National Association of Realtors is due at 10 ET (1400 GMT).
* Wednesday was the strongest day for the S&P 500 since May 14 and the Nasdaq Composite's strongest since late January, lifting it to its first record close since April 24.
* Broadcom
* Yahoo
* Western Digital
Futures snapshot at 7:23 a.m. EDT:
* S&P 500 e-minis
* Nasdaq 100 e-minis
* Dow e-minis <1YMc1> were down 34 points, or 0.19 percent, with 13,408 contracts changing hands.
(Reporting by Sweta Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza)
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