S&P Futures Opening Update as on 29 November 2018

 

US PRE MARKET

The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 2,733.25 with a loss of  -0.30% percent or -8.25 point. Other U.S. stock futures lower in pre-market trading for  November 29.The Dow Futures is trading at 25,278.00  with a loss of -0.26% percent or -66.00 point. The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 6,883.00  with  a loss of -0.51% percent or -34.50 point.

THURSDAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

Thursday’s session, another key topic that investors will be keeping an eye on are the minutes from the last Federal Open Market Committee meeting, which took place earlier this month.

Investors will be keeping a close eye on this release, to see if there are any further clues as to where monetary policy is heading. A number of Fed officials are also slated to speak in Boston, Massachusetts on Thursday.

WEDNESDAY’S ACTIVITY

For the day the Dow is trading at 25,366.43 up with +2.50% percent or  +617.70 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,743.79 up with +2.30% percent or +61.62 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 7,291.59  up with +2.95% percent or +208.89 point.

Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,530.38  up with  2.51% percent or +37.53 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 961.11 up with +2.41% percent or +22.66 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,868.96  up with +1.96% percent or +35.88 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,216.09 up with +2.49% percent or +29.54 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,616.59   up with  +2.32% percent or +36.71 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,516.27  up with +2.31% percent or +34.22 point;

In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere,Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 22,262.60 up with +0.39% percent or+85.58 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 26,483.96  with a loss of -0.74% percent or -198.60 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,567.44 with a loss of -1.32% percent or  -34.29 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 36,139.01 up with +1.18% percent or +422.06 point at 12:15 PM.The FTSE 100 is trading at 7,052.91 up with +0.71% percent or+49.54 point. Germany’s DAX is trading at 11,322.11 up with  +0.21% percent or +23.23 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,013.03 up with +0.60% percent or +29.79  point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 358.56 up with +0.33% percent or +1.34 point.