Dow Futures Opening Update as on 22 June 2018

U.S. stock futures higher in pre-market trading for Friday, June 22. The Dow Futures is trading at 24,570.00 up with +0.40% percent or +98.00 point. The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 2,764.25 up with +0.43% percent or +11.75 point.The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 7,262.75 up  with +0.35% percent or +25.00 point.

In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 22,516.83  with a loss of  -0.78% percent or -176.21 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 29,357.77 up with +0.21% percent or +61.72 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,889.76 up with +0.49% percent or  +13.95  point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 35,507.72 up with +0.21% percent or  +75.33 point at 12:15 PM.The FTSE 100 is trading at 7,620.92 up with +0.85% percent or +64.48 point. Germany’s DAX is trading at 12,564.21 up with +0.42% percent or +52.30 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,357.36  up with +0.78% percent or +41.35 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 383.57 up with +0.72% percent or +2.73  point.

friday’s Factors and Events

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 287.26 points to close at 24,700.21, with Boeing, DowDuPont and Caterpillar as the worst-performing stocks in the index. The 30-stock index also erased all of its gains for the year and posted a six-day losing streak, its longest since March 2017.

The S&P 500 dropped 0.4 percent to 2,762.45, with materials, industrials and tech lagging. The Nasdaq composite closed 0.3 percent lower at 7,725.59. Both indexes briefly fell more than 1 percent earlier in the session.

Thursday’s Activity

U.S. market were lower on Thursday.For the day the Dow is trading at 24,461.70 with  a loss of -0.80% percent or -196.10 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,749.76 with a loss of  -0.63% percent or  -17.56 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 7,712.95  with a loss of -0.88% percent or -68.56 point.

Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,688.95  with a loss of  -1.06% percent or  -18.04 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 1,042.41 with a loss of -0.95% percent        or -9.99  point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,987.34 with a loss of -0.72% percent or -14.45 point;the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,207.08 with a loss of -0.68% percent or -8.21 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,640.93 with a loss of  -0.70% percent or -11.51 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,528.58 with a loss of -0.66%  percent or  -10.23  point;