U.S. stock futures higher in pre-market trading for,Dec 13.The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 8,513.00 up with +0.56%  percent or +47.75 point.The Dow Futures is trading at 28,268.00  up with +0.49% percent or +137.00 point.The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 3,181.88 up  with +0.44% percent or +13.88 point.

In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere,In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 24,023.10 up with +2.55% percent or +598.29 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 27,679.88 up with +2.54% percent or +685.74 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,967.68 up with +1.78% percent or +51.98 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 40,976.79 up with +0.97% percent or +395.08 point at 12:15 PM.Germany’s DAX is trading at 13,379.73 up with +1.20% percent or +158.09 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,952.17  up with +1.15% percent or +67.91 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 414.33 up with +1.66% percent or +6.75   point.

Friday’s Factors and Events

The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.79% closed 220.75 points, or 0.8% higher, at 28,132.05, just shy of a new all-time high. The S&P 500 index SPX, +0.86% gained 26.95 points, or 0.9%, to close at 3,168.58, and the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0.73% added 63.27 points, or 0.7%, to 8,717.32, both new records. The Russell 2000 RUT, +0.79% gained 15.63 points, 1%, to close at a new all-time high of 1,647.56

Thursday Activity

Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,644.81 up with +0.79%  percent or +12.89 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 1,009.59  up with +1.06% percent or +10.55 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 2,036.63 up with +1.04% percent or +20.88   point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,412.56 up with +0.84% percent or +11.73 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,856.28 up with +0.82% percent or +15.03 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,749.69 up with +0.82% or +14.20 point.