U.S. stock futures lower in pre-market trading for Friday, June 15. The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 7,296.25 with a loss of -0.21% percent or -15.00 point.The Dow Futures is trading at 25,065.00 with a loss of -0.58% percent or -141.00 point.The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 141.00 with a loss of -0.40% percent or -11.25 point.

In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 22,851.75 up with +0.50% percent or +113.14 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 30,399.38 with a loss of –0.13% percent or –40.79 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 3,022.93 with  a loss of –0.70% percent or –21.23 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 35,543.18 with a loss of –0.16% percent or  –56.64 point at 12:15 PM.The FTSE 100 is trading at 7,707.74  with a loss of –0.75% percent or –58.05 point. Germany’s DAX is trading at 13,061.19 with  a loss of –0.35% percent or –45.91 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,534.34 with +0.11% percent or +5.89 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 391.52 with a loss of  –0.39% percent or –1.53 point.

Friday’s Factors and Events

The tech-heavy Nasdaq rose 0.9 percent to 7,761.04 with Facebook also reaching a record high. Netflix and Alphabet also contributed to the index’s gains. The S&P 500 also closed higher, climbing 0.3 percent to 2,7872.49.

Shares of Twenty-First Century Fox rose 2.1 percent after NBCUniversal-parent Comcast announced a bid to buy several major units of the media giant for $65 billion. Comcast’s bid tops Disney’s, which agreed to a $52.4 billion deal. Comcast shares rose 4.6 percent while Disney gained 1.3 percent.

“I think this is really their opportunity recreating a company that looks like Disney,” said Rich Greenfield, an analyst at BTIG, on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”