U.S. stock  lower in pre-market trading for,April 21.The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 8,610.00 with a loss of -0.94% percent or -82.00 point.The Dow Futures is trading at 22,984.00 with a loss of -2.15% percent or -504.00 point.The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 2,758.38 with a loss of -1.71% percent or -48.12 point.

In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 19,280.78 with a loss of –1.97% percent or –388.34   point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 23,865.73 with a loss of –1.91% percent or –464.29  point. China’s Shanghai  Composite is trading at 2,827.01 with a loss of –0.90% percent or –25.54 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 30,528.88 with a loss of –3.54% percent or –1,119.12 point at 12:15 PM.Germany’s DAX is trading at 10,351.12 with a loss of  –3.04% percent or –324.78 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 4,405.42 with a loss of –2.71% percent or –122.88 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 327.49 with -2.48% percent or –8.35  point.

Tuesday’s Factors and Events

NASDAQ dropped 1.03% (or about 89 points) to 8560.73, but that again outperformed its counterparts. The index is still getting help from tech, especially stay-at-home powerhouses like Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX, +3.4%), Roku (ROKU, +2.6%) and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN, +0.8%), just to name a few.

Monday Activity

For the day The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 8,560.73  with a loss of –1.03% percent or –89.41 point.the Dow is trading at 23,650.44 with a loss of –2.44% percent or –592.05  point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,823.16 with a loss of –1.79% percent or –51.40  point. 


Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,213.35  with a loss of -1.28% percent or -15.75 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 708.12 with 2.00% percent or -14.46 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,532.49 with a loss of –1.85% percent or -28.94 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,299.38 with a loss of –1.61% percent or -21.30 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,625.07 with a loss of –1.70% percent or ?28.09  point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,548.71 with a loss of -1.72%or -27.17 point.