U.S. stock futures lower in pre-market trading for Friday, July 06.The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 7,113.50 with a loss of -0.17% percent or -11.25 point.The Dow Futures is trading at 24,270.00 with a loss of -0.30% percent or -73.00 point. The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 2,734.50 with a loss of -0.15% percent or -4.00 point.

In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 21,788.14 up with +1.12% percent or +241.15 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 28,324.14 up with +0.50% percent or 142.05 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,747.23 up with +0.49% percent or +13.35 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 35,744.68 up with +0.47% percent or  +167.51 point at 12:15 PM.The FTSE 100 is trading at 7,578.47  with  a loss of -0.33% percent or -24.75 point. Germany’s DAX is trading at 12,473.56  up with +0.074% percent or +9.27 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,365.54  with a loss of  -0.015% percent or  -0.78 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 381.26 with a loss of  -0.09% percent or -0.28 point.

Friday’s Factors and Events

U.S. central bankers discussed whether recession lurked around the corner and expressed concerns global trade tensions could hit an economy that by most measures looked strong, minutes of the Federal Reserve’s last policy meeting on June 12-13 released on Thursday showed.

The minutes, which described a meeting in which the Fed raised interest rates for the second time this year, also suggested policymakers might soon signal that the Fed’s rate-hiking cycle was advanced enough that policy was no longer boosting or constraining the economy.