U.S. stock futures higher in pre-market trading for,October 24.The Dow Futures is trading at 26,830.50 up with +0.11% percent or +30.00 point. The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 3,010.38  up with +0.15%percent or +4.63 point. The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 7,942.12  up with +0.51% percent or +40.62 point.

In overnight trading in the Eastern Hemisphere,In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 22,750.60 up with +0.55%% percent or +125.22 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 26,786.52 up with +0.83% percent or +219.79 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,940.92 with a loss of –0.024% percent or –0.70  point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 39,115.37 up with +0.14% percent or +56.54 point at 12:15 PM.Germany’s DAX is trading at 12,863.51 up with 0.51% percent or +65.32 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 5,675.76  with +0.39% percent or +22.33 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 397.22  up with +0.54% percent or +2.14  point.

Thursday’s Factors and Events

Dow YM00, +0.17%, S&P ES00, +0.20% and Nasdaq NQ00, +0.60%  futures are inching up on another big earnings day. European stocks SXXP, +0.55%  are rising after a ton of company updates. The ECB left monetary policy unchanged at President Mario Draghi’s last central bank meeting. Asia markets ADOW, +0.51% finished mixed.

wednesday Activity

Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,552.86 up with +0.13% percent or +1.99 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 963.82 up with +0.25% percent or +2.41 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,948.71 up with +0.084% percent or  +1.63 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,330.97 with +0.25% percent or  +3.38 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,758.39 up with +0.26%  percent or +4.54 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,657.81 up with +0.27%  or +4.43  point.