US PRE MARKET
The S&P 500 Futures are trading at 2,845.50 with a loss of -0.28% percent or -8.00 point. Other U.S. stock futures are lower in pre-market trading for Tuesday, January 30. The Dow Futures are trading at 26,299.00 with a loss of –0.50% percent or -131.00 point. The Nasdaq Futures are trading at 6,967.50 with a loss of -0.36% percent or –25.00 point.
TUESDAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS
U.S. government debt prices were slightly higher on Tuesday, as another meeting by the U.S. Federal Reserve begins.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was lower at around 2.686 percent at 5:15 a.m. ET, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was lower at 2.938 percent. Bond yields move inversely to prices.
In the previous session, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to its highest since April 2014, as investors grew hopeful on the state of the U.S. economy — with a weaker U.S. dollar having also helped boost yields as of late.
MONDAY’S ACTIVITY
U.S. market were lower on Monday. For the day the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 26,439.48 with a loss of -0.67% percent or -177.23 point. The S&P 500 closed at 2,853.53 with a loss of -0.67% percent or -19.34 point. The Nasdaq Composite closed at 7,466.51 with a loss of -0.52% percent or -39.27 point.
Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,598.11 with a loss of -0.62% percent or -9.95 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 974.34 with a loss of -0.53% percent or –5.23 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,978.60 with a loss of -0.83% percent or -16.63 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,265.56 with a loss of -0.66% percent or -8.43 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,682.74 with a loss of -0.68% percent or -11.49 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,578.13 with a loss of -0.68% percent or -10.85 point; and the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index closed at 26,439.48 with a loss of -0.67% percent or -177.23 point.
WORLD MARKETS
In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere,Japan’s Nikkei 225 are trading at 23,291.97 with a loss of -1.43% percent or -337.37 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng are trading at 32,623.03 with a loss of -1.04% percent or -187.23 point. China’s Shanghai Composite are trading at 3,488.01 with a loss of -0.99% percent or -34.99 point. India’s BSE Sensex are trading at 36,085.16 with a loss of -0.54% percent or -191.55 point at 12:15 PM.The FTSE 100 are trading at 7,633.55 with a loss of -0.50% percent or -37.98 point. Germany’s DAX are trading at 13,302.03 with a loss of -0.17% percent or -22.45 point. France’s CAC 40 are trading at 5,516.00 with a loss of -0.11% percent or -5.86 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 are trading at 398.61 with a loss of -0.31% percent or -1.21 point.