US PRE MARKET

The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 3,122.88 up with +0.38% percent or +11.88 point. Other U.S. stock futures higher in pre-market trading for  Dec 05.The Dow Futures is trading at 27,754.00 up with +0.40% percent or +111.00 point. The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 8,337.38 up with +0.51% percent or +42.13 point.

THURSDAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

“I will become more constructive on the equity market as it begins to approach that historic 15x to 16x earnings multiple within a stable economic environment,” says O’Rourke. And right now, the forward price/earnings ratio — a popular method of valuing a stock’s worth — for the S&P 500 is right around 20.

WEDNESDAY’S ACTIVITY

For the day the Dow is trading at 27,649.78 up with +0.53% percent or  +146.97 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 3,112.76 up with +0.63% percent or +19.56 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 8,566.67 up with +0.54% percent or +46.03 point.

Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,613.90 up with 0.70%  percent or +11.27 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 985.29 up  with +0.80% percent or +7.78 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,999.53 with +0.79% percent or +15.61   point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,386.45 up with +0.63% percent or +8.69 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,825.48 up with +0.61% percent or +11.08 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,720.93 up with +0.60%  or +10.33  point.

In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere,In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 23,300.09 up with +0.71% percent or +164.86 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 26,219.58 up with +0.60% percent or +161.00 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,899.47 up with 0.74% percent or +21.35 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 40,893.02 with 0.10% percent or +42.73  point at 12:15 PM.Germany’s DAX is trading at 13,175.84  up with +0.27% percent or +35.27 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,845.98 up with +0.80% percent or +46.30 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 405.23  up with +0.51% percent or +2.04  point.