U.S. stock futures higher in pre-market trading for , August 27 The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 7,596.62 up with +0.08% percent or +6.12 point.The Dow Futures is trading at 25,957.00 up with +0.05% percent or +14.00 point. The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 2,884.38 up with +0.04% percent or +1.13 point.

In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere, In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 20,456.08 up with +0.96% percent or +195.04point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 25,611.38 with a loss of –0.27% percent or –68.95 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,902.19  up with +1.35% percent or +38.63 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 37,648.44 up with +0.41% percent or +154.32 point at 12:15 PM.The FTSE 100 is trading at 7,081.72  with a loss of –0.19% percent or  –13.16 point. Germany’s DAX is trading at 11,707.69 up with +0.43% percent or +49.28 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,361.62 up with +0.20% percent or +10.60 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 372.25  up with +0.26% percent or +0.95 point.

Tuesday’s Factors and Events

the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to price, was trading down at 1.501%, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond edged down to 2.012%.

Investors remain attuned to the critical spread between the 10-year and 2-year yield, which inverted further on Monday as an upcoming supply of $113 billion in fixed rate, coupon-bearing shorter-maturity Treasury debt outweighed the perceived thawing of trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies.

Monday Activity

For the day The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 7,853.74 up with +1.32% percent or +101.97 point.the Dow is trading at 25,898.83  up with +1.05% percent or +269.93  point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,878.38 up with +1.10% percent or +31.27 point. 

Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,476.00 up with +1.13% percent or +16.52 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 905.91  up with +1.05% percent or +9.41 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,851.39   up with +0.81% percent or +14.84 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,271.79 up with +1.18% percent or+14.88 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,688.44 up with +1.06% percent or +17.70 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,592.98  up with +1.05% or +16.62 point.