S&P Futures Opening Update as on 26 September 2017

US PRE MARKET

The S&P 500 Futures are trading at 2,495.00 with a loss of -0.08% percent or -2.00 point. Other U.S. stock futures are lower in pre-market trading for Tuesday, September 26. The Dow Futures are trading at 22,271.00 with a loss of -2.50 percent or -4.50 point. The Nasdaq Futures are trading at 5,886.38 for up with +0.17% percent or +9.88 point.

TUESDAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

U.S. government debt prices were lower Tuesday morning as investors watched out for growing tensions between North Korea and the United States and awaited to hear from the U.S. Fed chair.

The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury notes, which moves inversely to price, was higher at around 2.2216 percent, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was also higher at 2.7615 percent.

North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho said Monday that one tweet from President Donald Trump over the weekend was a declaration of war.

 Pyongyang said that it’s thus its right to take countermeasures, which could include shooting down U.S. bombers even if they are not in North Korea’s air space. The U.S. administration has said that such an accusation is “absurd.”

MONDAY’S ACTIVITY

U.S. market were lower  on Monday. For the day the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 22,296.09 with a loss of -0.24% percent or -53.50 point. The S&P 500 closed at 2,496.66 with a loss of -0.22% percent or -5.56 point. The Nasdaq Composite closed at 6,370.59 with a loss of -0.88% percent or -56.33 point.

Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,451.96 for up with  +0.08% percent or +1.18 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 877.30 for up with +0.28% percent or  +2.43 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,771.85 for up with  +0.18% percent or +3.20 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,103.60  with a loss of  –0.27% percent or –3.01 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,480.03   with a loss of  –0.19% percent or –2.83 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,384.38  with a loss of –0.21% percent or –2.96 point; and the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index closed at 22,296.09 with a loss of –0.24% percent or –53.50point.

WORLD MARKETS

In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere,   Japan’s Nikkei 225 are trading at 20,330.19  with a loss of -0.33% percent or -67.39 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng are trading at 27,513.01  for up with +0.05% percent or  +12.67 point. China’s Shanghai Composite are trading at 3,343.58  for up with + 0.06% percent or  +2.03 point. India’s BSE Sensex are trading at 31,599.76  with  a loss of –0.08%  percent or –26.87 point at 12:15 PM. The FTSE 100 are trading at 7,296.21 with a loss of  -0.07% percent or –5.72 point. Germany’s DAX are trading at 12,611.51 for up  with +0.13% percent or +16.70 point. France’s CAC 40 are trading at 5,266.15 with a loss of –0.02% percent or –0.97 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 are trading at 384.09 for up  with +0.05% percent or  +0.17 point.