The S&P 500 Futures is trading at +23.00 up with +0.30%  percent or +11.58 point.Other U.S. stock futures higher in pre-market trading for Feb 03.The Dow Futures is trading at 30,609.00  up with +0.08% percent or +23.00 point.The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 13,533.00  with +0.62% percent or +84.00 point.

WEDNESDAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

TUESDAY’S ACTIVITY

For the day the Dow is trading at 30,687.48 up with +1.57% percent or  +475.57 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 3,826.31 up with +1.39% percent or +52.45  point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 13,612.78 up with  +1.56% percent or +209.38 point.

Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 2,151.44 up with +1.19% percent or +25.28  point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 1,212.08  up with +0.15% percent or +1.83 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 2,417.44 up with +1.20% percent or +28.67 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,760.96 up with +1.37% percent or  +23.86 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 2,307.58  up with +1.45% percent or +33.04  point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 2,167.40 with +1.47% or +31.44 point.

In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at at 28,646.50  up with +1.00% percent or +284.33  point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 29,220.70 with a loss of -0.096% percent or  –28.00 point. China’s Shanghai  Composite is trading at 3,525.91 with a loss of -0.22% percent or -7.78 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 50,295.91  up with +1.00% percent or +498.19 point at 12:15 PM.For the day the FTSE 100 closed at 6,516.65  up with +0.78% percent or +50.23 point. France’s CAC  40 closed at 5,563.11  up with +1.86% percent or  +101.43 point.Germany’s DAX closed at 13,835.16  up with +1.56% percent or +213.14  point.