Nasdaq Futures Opening Update as on 18 Sept 2020

U.S. stock lower in pre-market trading for,Sept 18.The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 11,111.80 up with +0.33% percent or +35.37 point.The Dow Futures is trading at 27,764.00with a loss of -0.20% percent or -55.00 point.The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 3,349.62 with a loss of -0.04% percent or -1.38 point.

In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at at 23,360.30 up with + percent or +40.93 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 24,473.23 up with + percent or  +132.38 point. China’s Shanghai  Composite is trading at 3,334.67 up with + percent or +64.24 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 39,057.19 up with  percent or  +77.34 point at 12:15 PM.Germany’s DAX closed at 13,208.12 up with percent or –47.25 point.the FTSE 100 closed at 6,049.92 with a loss of – percent or  -28.56 point. France’s CAC  40 closed at 5,039.50 with a loss of percent or –34.92 point.

Friday’s Factors and Events

Telemedicine provider Amwell raised $742 million after selling more than 42 million shares at an initial offering of $18. The stock closed up 28% in its debut Thursday.

JFrog, a software development and operation platform, raised about $510 million when it sold more than 11 million shares for $44 apiece in its Wednesday IPO. It closed up 47% the first day and was down slightly Thursday.

Snowflake, a data-warehousing company, was the biggest tech IPO of the year selling shares for $120 a stock in its IPO raising more than $3 billion. The stock, which received much more demand than first anticipated, declined 10% in Thursday’s market after more than doubling in Wednesday’s debut.

Thursday Activity

For the day The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 10,910.28 with a loss of percent or –140.19 point.the Dow is trading at 27,901.98 with a loss of – percent or  –130.40 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 3,357.01 with a loss of – percent or –28.48 point.

Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,542.60 with a loss of -0.63% percent or -9.73 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 875.86 with a loss of – percent or ?6.92 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,888.13 with percent or  -10.42 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,548.53 with  a loss of – percent or ?15.35 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,964.60 with a loss of percent or ?16.93 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,866.57 with a loss of –or ?16.34 point.