U.S. stock futures higher in pre-market trading for,October 01.The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 7,788.75 up with +0.23% percent or +18.25 point.The Dow Futures is trading at 26,947.00 up with +0.17% percent or +46.00 point. The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 2,983.38 up with +0.16% percent or +4.88 point.

In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere, In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 21,885.24 up with +0.59% percent or +129.40 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 26,092.27 up with +0.53% percent or +137.46 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,905.19 with a loss of –0.92% percent or –26.98 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 38,469.73 with a loss of  –0.51% percent or –197.60 point at 12:15 PM. Germany’s DAX is trading at 12,410.13 with a loss of –0.14% percent or –17.95 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,665.57 with a loss of -0.22% percent or –12.21 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 391.64  with a loss of –391.89 percent or -1.25  point.

Tuesday’s Factors and Events

Similar to 1998, where stocks rallied for 18 months (advancing 68%) from the cyclical low to the point of maximum public bullishness, the 3/2000 ‘Tech Bubble Top,’”he wrote, “we expect the current four-month S&P 500 trading range to resolve with new all-time highs as the prospect of higher interest rates… results in fund flows to stocks and the public’s eventual embracing of the ‘most hated bull market of all-time.’

Monday Activity

Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,523.37 up with +0.19% percent or +2.90 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 947.72 up with +0.15% percent or +1.41 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,935.48 up with +0.66% percent or + +12.74 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,315.25 up with +0.50% percent or +6.59 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,742.70 up with +0.50% percent or +8.70 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,644.18 up with +0.52% or  +8.56 point.