S&P Futures Opening Update as on 25 May 2018

US PRE MARKET

The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 2,734.00 up with +0.24% percent or +6.50 point. Other U.S. stock futures  mixed in pre-market trading for Friday, May 25. The Dow Futures is trading at 24,870.00 up  with +0.27% percent or +67.00 point.The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 6,985.25 up with +0.40% percent or +28.00 point.

FRIDAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

In data, durable goods data for April are scheduled to be released at around 8:30 a.m. ET, with consumer sentiment data for May expected to follow later in the session.

Meanwhile, oil prices slipped Friday as OPEC and Russia mulled over the prospect of easing production cuts in order to offset crude supply disruptions in Venezuela — as well as an expected drop in Iranian exports.

Global benchmark Brent crude traded at $78.07 on Friday morning, down 0.9 percent, while U.S. WTI stood at $70.25, off by over 0.6 percent.

THURSDAY’S ACTIVITY

U.S. market were lower on Thursday.For the day the Dow is trading at 24,811.76  with a loss of -0.30% percent or -75.05 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,727.76  with a loss of  -0.20% percent or -5.53 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 7,424.43  with a loss of -0.021% percent or  -1.53 point.

Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,628.22 up with +0.038% percent or +0.61 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 1,005.10 up with +0.043% percent or + 0.43 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,951.55 up with +0.052% percent or +1.02 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,197.68  with a loss of -0.31% percent or  -3.78 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,621.37  with a loss of -0.16% percent or  -2.63 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,513.57 with a loss of -0.18% percent or -2.71 point;

WORLD MARKETS

In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 22,450.79 up with +0.061% percent or +13.78 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 30,605.04 with a loss of -0.51% percent or  -155.37 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 3,141.30 with a loss of  -0.42% percent or  -13.35 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 34,814.32   up with +0.44%  percent or  +151.21  point at 12:15 PM.The FTSE 100 is trading at 7,733.08 up with +0.21% percent or +16.34 point. Germany’s DAX is trading at 12,980.22 up with +0.97% percent or +125.13 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,576.27 up with +0.50% percent or +27.83 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 391.92 up with +0.36% percent or  +1.41 point.