S&P Futures Opening Update as on 02 Jan 2020

US PRE MARKET

The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 3,249.62 up with +0.58% percent or +18.62 point. Other U.S. stock futures higher in pre-market trading for  Jan 02.The Dow Futures is trading at 28,674.50 up with +0.58% percent or +166.50 point. The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 8,815.12 up with +0.72%% percent or +62.87 point.

THURSDAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

U.S. stock futures were pointing to a strong start on Thursday, with futures on the Dow Jones Industrial YM00, +0.51%  gaining over 140 points.

European SXXP, +0.90% and Asian stocks ADOW, +0.20%  also rose.

In currency markets, the British pound GBPUSD, -0.4226% sagged while most of the other major pairs saw little movement.

WEDNESDAY’S ACTIVITY

For the day the Dow is trading at 28,538.44  with a loss of –0.37% percent or –106.82 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 3,230.78 up with +0.29% percent or +9.49 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 8,972.60 up with +0.30% percent or +26.61  point.

Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,668.47 up with +0.26%  percent or +4.32 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 1,021.18  up with +0.31% percent or +3.16 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 2,063.02 up with +0.11% percent or +2.30   point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,442.17 up with +0.28% percent or +4.03 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,892.25 up with +0.30% percent or +5.59 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,784.21 up with +0.30% or +5.31 point.

In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 23,656.62 with a loss of –0.76% percent or -181.10 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 28,502.44 up with 1.11% percent or +312.69 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 3,086.10 up with +1.18% percent or +35.98   point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 41,520.30 up with +0.52% percent or +214.28 point at 12:15 PM.Germany’s DAX is trading at 13,351.11  up with  +0.77% percent or +102.10 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 6,051.78  up  with +1.23% percent or +73.73 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 419.71  up with +0.93% percent or +3.87  point.