U.S. stock futures higher  in pre-market trading for , October 31.The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 6,894.25  up with +1.10% percent or +75.00 point.The Dow Futures is trading at 25,011.00 up with +0.61% percent or +152.00 point. The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 2,704.75  up with +0.73% percent or +19.50 point.

In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 21,920.46 up with +2.16% percent or +463.17 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 24,853.95  up with +1.09% percent or +268.42 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,602.78 up  with +1.35% percent or  +34.74 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 33,961.56 up with +0.21% percent or +70.43 point at 12:15 PM.The FTSE 100 is trading at 7,137.54 up with  +1.45% percent or +101.69 point. Germany’s DAX is trading at 11,442.98 up  with  +1.38% percent or +155.59 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,092.85  up with +2.30%  percent or +114.33 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 361.28 up with +1.62% percent or +5.75 point.

Wednesday’s Factors and Events

At around 5:20 a.m. ET, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to price, was higher at around 3.3900 percent, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was also higher at 3.1473 percent.

Market sentiment has been hit by a confluence of factors in recent weeks, ranging from intensifying global trade tensions, worries about economic growth, rising U.S. interest rates and company earnings.

Thursday’s Activity

For the day  The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 7,161.65 up with +1.58% percent or +111.36 point.the Dow is trading at 24,874.64  up with +1.77% percent or  +431.72 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,682.63 up with +1.57% percent or +41.38 point.

Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,477.31  with a loss of -0.44% percent or -6.51 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 930.09 with a loss of -0.22% percent or -2.06  point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,788.59  with a loss of -0.36% percent or -6.51 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,177.69   with a loss of -0.96% percent or -11.37 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,555.69  with a loss of  -0.65% percent or -10.25  point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,458.80  with a loss of -0.67% percent or -9.86 point;