US PRE MARKET
The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 2,644.00 with a loss of -0.02% percent or -0.50 point. Other U.S. stock futures lower in pre-market trading for Thursday, April 26. The Dow Futures is trading at 24,059.00 with a loss of -0.08% percent or -21.00 point. The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 6,578.75 up with +0.35% percent or +23.00 point.
THURSDAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS
WEDNESDAY’S ACTIVITY
U.S. market were higher on Wednesday.For the day the Dow is trading at 24,083.83 up with +0.25% percent or +59.70 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,639.40 up with +0.18% percent or +4.84 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 7,003.74 with a loss of -0.052% percent or -3.62 point.
Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,550.47 with a loss of -0.18% percent or -2.81 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 955.03 with a loss of -0.24% percent or -2.34 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,888.01 up with +0.06% percent or +1.19 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,155.38 up with +0.13% percent or +1.54 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,566.31 up with +0.12% percent or +1.95 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,463.95 up with +0.15% percent or +2.20 point;
WORLD MARKETS
In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere,Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 22,319.61 up with +0.47% percent or +104.29 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 29,910.72 with a loss of -1.38% percent or -418.36 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 3,072.48 with a loss of -1.46% percent or -45.50 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 34,545.78 up with +0.13% percent or +44.51 point at 12:15 PM.The FTSE 100 is trading at 7,369.65 with a loss of -0.13% percent or -9.67 point. Germany’s DAX is trading at 12,445.87 up with +0.19% percent or +23.38 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,423.85 up with +0.20% percent or +10.56 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 380.31 up with +0.02% percent or +0.11 point.
U.S. government debt yields continued their upward climb Thursday, with the rate on the 10-year Treasury note edging above the 3 percent benchmark it hit Tuesday for the first time since 2014.
The yield on the two-year Treasury yield also extended its gains, up to over 2.5 percent and its highest level since September 2008.
The 10-year Treasury note yield was higher at around 3.028 percent at 2:38 a.m. ET, down from 3.033 percent hit earlier in the session, its highest level since January 2, 2014. The next key technical level for the 10-year yield is 3.05 percent, which would put the yield at its highest level since 2011.