US PRE MARKET
The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 2,426.00 up with +0.52% percent or +12.50 point.Other U.S. stock futures higher in pre-market trading for December 24.The Dow Futures is trading at 22,490.00 up with +0.37% percent or +83.00 point.The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 6,103.75 up with +0.74% percent or +44.75 point.
MONDAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS
For the day the Dow is trading at 22,445.37 with a loss of -1.81% percent or -414.23 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,416.62 with a loss of -2.06% percent or -50.80 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 6,332.99 with a loss of -2.99% percent or -195.41 point.
Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,292.09 with a loss of -2.56% percent or -33.92 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 809.61 with a loss of -2.23% percent or -18.49 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,611.35 with a loss of -2.01% percent or -32.98 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,071.32 with a loss of -2.28% percent or -25.04 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,418.06 with a loss of -2.11% percent or -30.51 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,333.95 with a loss of -2.07% percent or -28.23 point;
In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 20,166.19 with a loss of -1.11% percent or -226.39 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 25,651.38 with a loss of -0.40% percent or -102.04 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,527.01 up with +0.43% percent or +10.76 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 35,749.81 up with +0.022% percent or +7.74 point at 12:15 PM.The FTSE 100 is trading at 6,689.72 with a loss of -0.47% percent or -31.45 point. Germany’s DAX is trading at 10,633.82 up with +0.21% percent or +22.72 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 4,639.57 with a loss of -1.17% percent or -54.81 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 334.84 with a loss of -0.54% percent or -1.80 point.
The Dow and S&P 500, which are both in corrections, are on track for their worst December performance since the Great Depression in 1931, down more than 10 percent each this month. The S&P 500 is now in the red for 2018 by 7.7 percent.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 464.06 points to 22,859.6, bringing its two-day declines to more than 800 points and its 5-day losses to more than 1,700 points. The S&P 500 fell 1.5 percent to finish at 2,467.41 as technology stocks underperformed. The Nasdaq Composite fell 1.6 percent and closed at 6,528.41, briefly dipping into bear market territory amid big losses in Amazon and Apple. The Nasdaq is 19.7 percent below its recent high. Companies in the S&P 500 have lost a total of $2.39 trillion in market cap this month. The Cboe Volatility Index — one of the market’s best gauges of marketplace fear — rose above 30.
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