US PRE MARKET
The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 2,818.75 with a loss of -0.08% percent or – 2.25 point. Other U.S. stock futures mixed in pre-market trading for Wednesday, July 25.The Dow Futures is trading at 25,213.00 with 0.00% percent or -1.00 point. The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 7,417.75 up with +0.02% percent or +1.75 point.
WEDNESDAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS
For the day the Dow is trading at 25,241.94 up with +0.79% percent or +197.65 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,820.40 up with +0.48% percent or +13.42 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 7,840.77 with a loss of -0.014% percent or -1.10 point.
Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,680.20 with a loss of -1.07% percent or -18.22 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 1,046.24 with a loss of -0.90% percent or -9.52 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,983.01 with a loss of -0.75% percent or -15.00 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,249.94 up with +0.85% percent or +10.48 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,674.48 up with +0.21% percent or +3.53 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,563.19 up with +0.32% percent or +4.98 point;
WORLD MARKETS
In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 22,614.25 up with 0.46% percent or +103.77 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 28,923.52 up with +0.91% percent or +260.95 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,903.65 with a loss of -0.066% percent or ?1.92 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 36,915.78 up with +0.25% percent or +90.68 point at 12:15 PM.The FTSE 100 is trading at 7,670.30 with a loss of -0.50% percent or -38.75 point. Germany’s DAX is trading at 12,661.53 with a loss of -0.22% percent or -27.86 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,437.92 UP with +0.069% percent or +3.73 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 387.99 with a loss of -0.05% percent or -0.18 point.
Wall Street will continue to wade through the latest batch of corporate earnings, bond investors will be switching their attention to news out of the economic and central banking sphere.
On the data front, mortgage applications will be published at 7 a.m. ET, while new home sales for June are set to come out at 10 a.m. ET. Traders are also gearing up for a report on gross domestic product due Friday.
Meantime, the U.S. Treasury will auction $36 billion in five-year notes and $18 billion in two-year floating rate notes (FRNs).
TUESDAY’S ACTIVITY