US PRE MARKET

The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 3,102.12  with a loss of -0.39% percent or -12.13 point.   Other U.S. stock futures lower in pre-market trading for  Dec 03.The Dow Futures is trading at 27,670.50 up with +0.43% percent or +118.50 point. The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 8,275.00 with a loss of -0.49% percent or -41.00 point.

TUESDAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

Andrew Hunter, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics, cautioned that manufacturing still wasn’t “out of the woods,” in a client note on Monday, and warned that conditions underlying manufacturing “remain unusually weak.”

Adding to the jitters are higher U.S. stock valuation levels, which Cruz warned can make “the market prone to sudden, fast corrections,” particularly if investors think the slowdown in manufacturing is accelerating, or there are concerns about the health of the consumer.

MONDAY’S ACTIVITY

For the day the Dow is trading at 27,783.04 with a loss of –0.96% percent or –268.37 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 3,113.87  with a loss of –0.86% percent or –27.11 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 8,567.99  with a loss of –1.12% percent or –97.48 point.

Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,607.58  with a loss of -1.04% percent or -16.92 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 981.57 with a loss of –1.20% percent or -11.94 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,995.86 with a loss of –0.71% percent or -14.29   point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,387.38 with a loss of –0.80% percent or -11.25 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,825.53  with a loss of –0.90% percent or -16.52 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,721.45 with a loss of -1.04%  or -15.40  point.

In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere,In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 23,379.81 with a loss of –0.64% percent or –149.69 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 26,391.30 with a loss of –0.20% percent or –53.42 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,884.70 up with +0.31% percent or +8.89 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 40,624.14 with a loss of –0.44% percent or –178.03  point at 12:15 PM.Germany’s DAX is trading at 13,030.81  up with +0.51% percent or +66.13 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,765.96  with a loss of –0.36% percent or –20.78 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 401.00  with 0.00% percent or +0.01   point.