S&P Futures Opening Update as on 08 December 2017

US PRE MARKET

The S&P 500 Futures are trading at 2,644.88 for up with +0.20% percent or +5.38 point. Other U.S. stock futures are higher in pre-market trading for Friday, December 08. The Dow Futures are trading at 24,276.50 for up with +0.19% percent or +45.50 point. The Nasdaq Futures are trading at 6,355.38 for up with +0.51% percent or +32.38 point.

FRIDAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

U.S. government debt prices were lower Friday, ahead of the release of the nonfarm payrolls data for November.

The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note sat higher at around 2.386 percent at 5:15 a.m. ET, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was higher at 2.782 percent. Bond yields move inversely to prices.

On the final trading day of the week, it’s all about the U.S. labor market as key jobs data is due.

 Investors will be turning their attention to nonfarm payrolls, unemployment rate figures and average hourly wages data — all of which will be published at 8:30 a.m. ET — to try and get a sense of how the U.S. economy and the labor market are performing.

THURSDAY’S ACTIVITY

U.S. market were higher on Thursday. For the day the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 24,211.48 for up with +0.29% percent or +70.57 point. The S&P 500 closed at 2,636.98 for up with +0.29% percent or +7.71 point. The Nasdaq Composite closed at 6,812.84 for up with +0.54% percent or +36.47 point.

Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,520.47 for up with +1,520.47 percent or +11.59 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 928.53 for up with +0.56% percent or +5.19 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,883.50 for up with +0.66% percent or +12.40 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,164.60 for up with +0.18% percent or +2.09 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,561.34 for up with +0.37% percent or +5.83 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,461.30 for up with +0.34% percent or +5.00 point; and the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index closed at 24,211.48 for up with +0.29% percent or +70.57 point.

WORLD MARKETS

In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere,Japan’s Nikkei 225 are trading at 22,811.08 for up with +1.39% percent or  +313.05 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng are trading at 28,639.85 for up with +1.19% percent or +336.66 point. China’s Shanghai Composite are trading at 3,289.99 forup with +0.55% percent or +17.94 point. India’s BSE Sensex are trading at 33,247.81 for up with +0.92% percent or  +301.95 point at 12:15 PM.The FTSE 100 are trading at 7,342.40 for up with +0.30% percent or +21.65 point. Germany’s DAX are trading at 13,218.84 for up with +1.33% percent or  +173.69 point. France’s CAC 40 are trading at 5,406.90 for up with +0.43% percent or  +23.04 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 are trading at 389.66 with +0.84% percent or +3.24 point.