U.S. stock lower in pre-market trading for,March 26.The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 7,416.50 with a loss of -0.69% percent or –51.25 point.The Dow Futures is trading at 20,959.00 with a loss of-0.32% percent or -67.00 point. The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 2,449.12 with a loss of -0.72% percent or -17.88 point.
In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 18,664.60 with a loss of –4.51% percent or –882.03 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 23,352.34 with a loss of –0.74%percent or –174.85 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,764.91 with a loss of –0.60% percent or –16.68 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 29,366.12 up with +2.91% percent or +830.34 point at 12:15 PM.Germany’s DAX is trading at 9,673.58 with a loss of –2.03% percent or –200.68 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 4,350.28 with a loss of –1.85% percent or –82.01 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at309.19 with a loss of -1.34% percent or-4.37 point.
Thursday’s Factors and Events
Futures for Nasdaq-100 futuresNQM20, -0.706% were trading 49 points, or 0.7%, lower at 7,418.75.the Dow Jones Industrial Average YMM20, -0.680% were down 77 points, or 0.4%, at 20,949, those for the S&P 500 ESM20, -1.094% were off by 18 points at 2,449, for a decline of 0.8%.
Wednesday Activity
For the day the Dow is trading at 21,200.55 up with +2.39% percent or +495.64 point. The S&P 500 is trading at2,475.56 up with 1.15% percent or +28.23 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 7,384.30 with a loss of –0.45% percent or –33.56 point.
Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,110.37 up with +1.26% percent or +13.81 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 655.40 up with +0.94% percent or +6.08 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,388.86 up with +2.95% percent or +39.82 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,135.20 up with +0.42% percent or +4.78 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,429.25 up with +1.37% percent or +19.37 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,358.83 up with +1.38% or+18.51 point.