US PRE MARKET

The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 3,082.38  up with +0.22% percent or +6.63 point. Other U.S. stock futures higher in pre-market trading for  November 05.The Dow Futures is trading at 27,450.50 up with +0.25% percent or +69.50 point. The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 8,237.25 up with +0.26% percent or +21.50 point.

TUESDAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said that licenses for companies to do business with China’s Huawei Technologies Inc. will be coming “very shortly” and expressed optimism about a pact. However, he said a preliminary deal might not be ready to be signed this month: “We’re in good shape, we’re making good progress, and there is no natural reason why it couldn’t be.” Ross offered Iowa, Hawaii and Alaska as possible sites for a meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping to sign the deal, during an interview with Bloomberg Television in Bangkok, on the sidelines of the Asean summit.

MONDAY’S ACTIVITY

For the day the Dow is trading at 27,462.11 up with +0.42% percent or +114.75 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 3,078.27 up with 0.37% percent or +11.36 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 8,433.20 up with +0.56% percent or +46.80 point.

Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,597.40 up with +0.51% percent or +8.07 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 988.81 up with +0.86% percent or +8.39 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,995.10 up with +0.58% percent or +11.60  point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,369.37 up with +0.47% percent or +6.34 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,803.44 up with +0.37%  percent or +6.67 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,699.92 up with +0.36%  or +6.13 point.

In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere,In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 23,251.99 with +1.76% percent or +401.22 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 27,621.28 up with +0.27% percent or ++73.98 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,991.56 up with +0.54% percent or +16.07  point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 40,140.08 with a loss of –0.39% percent or –156.29 point at 12:15 PM.Germany’s DAX is trading at 13,131.71   with a loss of –0.035%percent or –4.57 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,832.15 up with  +0.13% percent or +7.85 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 403.51  up with +0.02% percent or +0.10  point.