US PRE MARKET
The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 2,880.88 up with +0.48% percent or +13.88 point. Other U.S. stock futures higher in pre-market trading for April 03.The Dow Futures is trading at 26,262.00 up with +0.42% percent or +109.00 point. The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 7,561.00 up with +0.56% percent or +41.75 point.
WEDNESDAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS
Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,553.32 with a loss of -0.18% percent or -2.74 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 946.53 with a loss of -0.49% percent or -4.62 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,915.25 with a loss of -0.38% percent or -7.26 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,266.04 up with +0.0095% percent or +0.12 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,689.89 with a loss of -0.017% percent or -0.29 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,588.57 with a loss of -0.0051% or -0.081 point
In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere, In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 21,713.21 up with +0.97% percent or +207.90 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 29,922.05 up with +1.00% percent or +297.38 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 3,216.74 up with +1.26% percent or +39.92 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 39,188.71 up with +0.34% percent or +132.06 point at 12:15 PM.The FTSE 100 is trading at 7,395.30 up with +0.057% percent or +4.18 point. Germany’s DAX is trading at 11,892.03 up with +1.17% percent or +137.24 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,456.58 up with +0.61% percent or +33.12 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 387.27 up with +0.58% percent or +2.23 point.
U.S. government debt prices fell Wednesday as traders monitored the latest developments in U.S.-China trade talks.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note jumped sharply to about 2.51 percent, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond climbed to 2.91 percent. Bond yields move inversely to prices.
U.S. and Chinese officials are reportedly getting closer to a trade deal, having resolved most of the outstanding issues in their protracted trade spat. Both countries slapped tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of each other’s goods last year.
TUESDAY’S ACTIVITY
For the day the Dow is trading at 26,179.13 with a loss of -0.30% percent or -79.29 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,867.24 up with +0.0017% percent or +0.050 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 7,848.69 up with +0.25% percent or +19.78 point.