S&P Futures Opening Update as on 14 September 2018

US PRE MARKET

The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 2,908.75 up with +0.12% percent or +4.00point.  Other U.S. stock futures  higher in pre-market trading for  September 14. The Dow Futures is trading at 26,191.00  up with +0.12% percent or  +31.00 point. The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 7,589.50  up with +0.33% percent or +25.00 point.

FRIDAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

U.S. government debt prices slipped into the red on the final trading day of the week.

Investors in the bond market will likely be preoccupied with news coming out of the economic sphere on Friday. Retail sales, import and export price indexes are due out at 8:30 a.m. ET, followed by industrial production figures at 9:15 a.m. ET and consumer sentiment and business inventories at 10 a.m. ET.

THURSDAY’S ACTIVITY

For the day the Dow is trading at 26,145.99 up with +0.57% percent or +147.07 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,904.18   up with +0.53% percent or +15.26 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 8,013.71 up with +0.75% percent or +59.48 point.

Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,714.32  up with +0.080% percent or+1.38 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 1,078.98 with a loss of -0.031% percent or -0.33  point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 2,039.23 up with +0.15% percent or +3.04 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,286.56 up with +00.56% percent or +7.13 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,724.85 up with +0.47% or +8.02 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,611.48  up with +0.51% percent or +8.22 point;

WORLD MARKETS

In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 23,094.67  up with +1.20% percent or +273.35 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 27,303.83  up with +1.07% percent or  +289.34 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,681.64  with a loss of  -0.18% percent or  ?4.94 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 38,011.53 up with +0.78%  percent or  +293.57 point at 12:15 PM.The FTSE 100 is trading at 7,305.71 up with +0.32% percent or +23.57 point. Germany’s DAX is trading at 12,087.48  up with +0.26% percent or  +31.93  point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,347.32   up with +0.36% percent or  +19.20 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 377.57  up with  +0.28% percent or +1.07 point.