U.S. stock futures are lower in pre-market trading for Wednesday, April 11.The Nasdaq Futures are trading at 6,593.00 with a loss of  -0.45% percent or -30.00 point.The S&P 500 Futures are trading at  2,640.75 with a loss of -0.54% percent or  -14.25 point. The Dow Futures are trading at 24,262.00 with a loss of -0.37% percent or -89.00 point.

In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere, Japan’s Nikkei 225 are trading at 21,687.10 with a loss of -0.49% percent or  -107.22 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng are trading at 3,208.08 for up  with +0.56% percent or +17.76 point. China’s Shanghai Composite are trading at 3,208.08 for up with +0.56% percent or  +17.76 point. India’s BSE Sensex are trading at 33,915.47 for up with +0.10% percent or  +35.22  point at 12:15 PM.The FTSE 100 are trading at 7,247.66 with a loss of  -0.26% percent or -19.14 point. Germany’s DAX are trading at 12,360.27  with a loss of -0.30% percent or  -37.05 point. France’s CAC 40 are trading at 5,291.43  with a loss of -0.30% percent or -16.13 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 are trading at 377.29   with a loss of -0.28% percent or -1.06 point..

Wednesday’s Factors and Events

NASDAQ Composite Index up above 7000 points. The index first reached the 7000 mark on Jan 2, 2018. The total shares traded for the NASDAQ was over 2.31 billion.

Advancers stocks led declining by 3.85 to 1 ratio. There were 2384 advancers and 619 decliners for the day. On the NASDAQ Stock Exchange 36 stocks reached a 52 week high and 17 those reaching lows totaled. The most active, advancers, decliners, unusual volume and most active by dollar volume can be monitored intraday on the Most Active Stockspage.

The NASDAQ 100 index closed up 2.22% for the day; a total of 143.53 points. The current value is 6,615.87. American Airlines Group, Inc. ( AAL ) had the largest percent change down (-4.74%) while NVIDIA Corporation ( NVDA ) had the largest percent change gain rising 5.8%.

 Tuesday’s Activity

U.S. market were higher on Tuesday. For the day the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 24,408.00 for up  with +1.79% percent or  +428.90 point. The S&P 500 closed at 2,656.87 for up with +1.67% percent or +43.71 point. The Nasdaq Composite closed at 7,094.30  for up with +2.07% percent or  +143.96 point.

Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,543.43 for up  with +1.91% percent or +28.97 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 949.63 for up with +1.91% percent or+17.80 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,884.57 for up with +1.62% percent or  +30.04 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,168.14 for up with +1.75% percent or +20.11 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,574.67 for up with +1.69% percent or + 26.16  point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,472.98 for up with +1.67% percent or +24.21 point; and the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index closed at 24,408.00  for up with +1.79% percent or +428.90 point.