US PRE MARKET
The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 2,890.62 up with +1.55% percent or +44.12 point.Other U.S. stock futures higher in pre-market trading for May 18.The Dow Futures is trading at 23,890.00 up with +1.59% percent or +373.00 point.The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 9,215.75 up with +1.31% percent or +119.25 point.
MONDAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS
FRIDAY’S ACTIVITY
For the day the Dow is trading at 23,685.42 up with +0.25% percent or +60.08 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,863.70 up with +0.39% percent or +11.20 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 9,014.56 up with +0.79% percent or +70.84 point.
Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,256.99 up with +1.57% percent or +19.44 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 712.38 up with +1.31% percent or +9.21 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,578.26 up with +0.71% percent or +11.11 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,323.54 up with +0.47%percent or +6.15 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,656.81 up with +0.50% percent or +8.20 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,577.46 with +0.43% or +6.81 point.
In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 20,037.47 up with +0.62% percent or +122.69 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 23,809.69 with a loss of –0.084% percent or –20.05 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,868.46 with a loss of –0.066% percent or –1.88 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 30,955.62 with a loss of –0.54% percent or –167.27 point at 12:15 PM.Germany’s DAX is trading at 10,761.13 up with +2.83% percent or +295.96 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 4,370.32 with +2.17% percent or +92.69 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 335.13 with up +2.10% percent or +6.89 point.