U.S. stock futures higher in pre-market trading for , February 21.The Dow Futures is trading at 26,002.00 up with +0.15% percent or +38.00 point. The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 2,790.38 up with +0.12% percent or +3.38 point.The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 7,092.50 up with +0.27% percent or +19.25 point.
In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 21,464.23 up with +0.15% percent or +32.74 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 28,578.20 up with +0.22% percent or +64.15 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,748.62 with a loss of -0.46% percent or -12.60 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 35,851.25 up with +0.27% percent or +94.99 point at 12:15 PM.The FTSE 100 is trading at 7,174.97 with a loss of -0.74% percent or -53.65 point. Germany’s DAX is trading at 11,446.43 up with +0.39% percent or +44.46 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,200.58 up with +0.089% percent or +4.64 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 371.03 with a loss of -0.13% percent or -0.48 point.
Thursday’s Factors and Events
The news sparked some risk-on sentiment with investors flocking to equities. Traders are also digesting the minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest monetary policy meeting. The central bank highlighted downside risks to the economy from its January meeting.
Those risks included “the possibilities of a sharper-than-expected slowdown in global economic growth,” a “rapid waning of fiscal policy stimulus” and “further tightening of financial market conditions.”
Friday’s Activity
For the day the Dow is trading at 25,954.44 up with +0.24% percent or +63.12 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,784.70 up with +0.18% percent or +4.94 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 7,489.07 up with +0.031% percent or +2.30 point.
Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,581.66 up with +0.46% percent or +7.19 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 987.87 up with +0.71% percent or +7.01 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,925.12 up with +0.46% percent or +8.85 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,221.74 up with +0.15% percent or +1.82 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,649.11 up with +0.18% percent or ++3.00 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,545.14 up with +0.16% percent or +2.48 point.