US PRE MARKET

The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 2,777.50  with a loss of -0.69% percent or  -19.25 point.Other U.S. stock futures  lower in pre-market trading for Wednesday, July 11. The Dow Futures is trading at 24,722.00  with a loss of  -0.82% percent or -205.00 point. The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 7,238.00  with a loss of -0.87% percent or -63.50 point.

WEDNESDAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

Coming up Wednesday, mortgage applications are due at 7 a.m. ET, followed by producer price index (PPI) data at 8:30 a.m. ET and wholesale trade figures at 10 a.m. ET.

The Treasury is set to auction $22 billion in nine-year and 10-month notes.

On the central banking front, New York Fed President John Williams is expected to deliver remarks at a Brooklyn Law School town hall event in New York.

Trade anxieties ramped up again across markets Wednesday, after President Donald Trump and his administration published late Tuesday a list of 10 percent duties on $200 billion worth in Chinese goods.

TUESDAY’S ACTIVITY

For the day the Dow is trading at 24,919.66 up with +0.58% percent or +143.07 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,793.84 up with +0.35% percent or +9.67 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 7,759.20 up with +0.039% percent or  +3.00 point.

Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,695.62  with a loss of -0.53% percent or -8.99 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 1,052.39  with  a loss of -0.47% percent or -4.93 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 2,008.12  with a loss of -0.051% percent or -1.03 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,229.89 up with +0.41% percent or +5.01 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,664.53 up with +0.25% percent or +4.10  point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,551.94 up with +0.31% percent or +4.84 point;

WORLD MARKETS

In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 21,932.21  with a loss of  -1.19% percent or -264.68 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 28,293.27 with a loss of -1.36% percent or  -388.98 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,777.77 with a loss of -1.76% percent or -49.85 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 36,324.02 up with +0.23% percent or  +84.40 point at 12:15 PM.The FTSE 100 is trading at 7,604.03 with a loss of  -1.14% percent or  -88.01 point. Germany’s DAX is trading at 12,461.43   with  a loss of -1.18% percent or  -148.42 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,374.18   with a loss of  -1.11% percent or -60.17 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 385.10 with a loss of -1.07% percent or  -4.15 point.