US PRE MARKET
The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 2,798.75 with a loss of -0.07% percent or -2.00 point. Other U.S. stock futures lower in pre-market trading for Monday, July 23.The Dow Futures is trading at 25,014.00 with a loss of -0.06% percent or -16.00 point. The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 7,329.75 with a loss of -0.41% percent or -30.25 point.
MONDAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS
For the day the Dow is trading at 25,058.12 with a loss of -0.025% percent or -6.38 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,801.83 with a loss of -0.095% percent or -2.66 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 7,820.20 with a loss of -0.065% percent or -5.10 point.
Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,696.81 with a loss of -0.26% percent or -4.50 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 1,055.99 with a loss of -0.28% percent or -2.98 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,998.36 with a loss of -0.53% percent or -10.69 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,236.33 up with +0.028% percent or +0.35 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,668.44 with a loss of -0.14% percent or -2.35 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,555.80 with a loss of -0.13% percent or -2.03 point;
WORLD MARKETS
In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 22,396.99 with a loss of -1.33% percent or -300.89 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 28,292.91 up with +0.24% percent or +68.43 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,857.89 up with +1.01% percent or +29.08 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 36,581.36 up with + 0.23% percent or +84.99 point at 12:15 PM.The FTSE 100 is trading at 7,646.32 with a loss of – 0.42% percent or -32.47 point. Germany’s DAX is trading at 12,503.45 with a loss of -0.46% percent or -57.97 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,362.47 with a loss of -0.66% percent or -35.85 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 384.38 with a loss of -0.32% percent or -1.23 point.
There has been muted trading of U.S. government debt on Monday morning.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was marginally lower at around 2.887 percent at 5:25 a.m. ET, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was a touch lower at 3.028 percent. Bond yields move inversely to prices.
While Wall Street will be turning its attention to a fresh new cluster of earnings, bond investors will be more attuned to economic data.
The U.S. Treasury is scheduled to auction $51 billion in 13-week bills and $45 billion in 26-week bills. The size of a four-week bill, set to take place Tuesday, will also be announced. Meantime, existing home sales figures are set to be published at 10 a.m. ET.
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