US PRE MARKET
The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 2,915.00 with a loss of -0.17% percent or -5.00 point. Other U.S. stock futures lower in pre-market trading for September 28. The Dow Futures is trading at 26,421.00 with a loss of -0.20% percent or -52.00 point. The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 7,642.50 with a loss of -0.19% percent or -14.75 point.
FRIDAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS
For the day the Dow is trading at 26,439.93 up with +0.21% percent or +54.65 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,914.00 up with +0.28% percent or +8.03 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 8,041.97 up with +0.65% percent or +51.60 point.
Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,690.53 with a loss of -0.064% percent or -1.08 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 1,057.62 with a loss of -0.040% percent or -0.42 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 2,012.69 up with +0.027% percent or +0.55 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,295.32 up with +0.41% percent or +5.24 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,725.83 up with +0.24% percent or +4.15 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,614.32 up with +0.27% percent or +4.28 point;
WORLD MARKETS
In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 24,120.04 up with +1.36% percent or +323.30 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 27,726.89 up with 0.040% percent or +11.22 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,821.35 up with +1.06% percent or +29.58 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 36,399.09 up with +0.21% percent or +74.92 point at 12:15 PM.The FTSE 100 is trading at 7,494.31 with a loss of -0.68% percent or -51.13 point. Germany’s DAX is trading at 12,270.74 with a loss of – 1.33% percent or -164.85 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,497.99 with a loss of -0.77% percent or -42.41 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 383.70 with a loss of -0.69% percent or -2.67 point.
The euro slipped below $1.16 on Friday for the first time in two weeks after Italy’s government agreed a budget seen by some investors as defying Brussels.
Political wrangling over the budget in heavily indebted Italy has put a lid on a recent revival in the euro’s fortunes against the dollar.
The single currency recorded its biggest one-day decline for nearly two months on Thursday as the battle over fiscal policy intensified in the euro zone’s third largest economy.
THURSDAY’S ACTIVITY