U.S. stock lower in pre-market trading for,July 01.The Dow Futures is trading at 25,442.00 with a loss of -0.96%percent or -247.00 point.The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 3,070.88 with a loss of -0.63% percent or -19.37 point.The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 10,103.00 with a loss of -0.44% percent or -44.25 point.
In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at at 22,121.73 with a loss of –0.75% percent or –166.41 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 24,427.19 up with 0.52% percent or +125.91 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 3,022.91 with 1.28% percent or +38.24 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 35,269.22 with +1.01% percent or +353.42 point at 12:15 PM.Germany’s DAX is trading at 12,106.90 with a loss of –1.66% percent or -204.03 point. France’s CAC 40 is trading at 4,852.25 with a loss of –1.70% percent or –83.74 point. The Stoxx Europe 600 is trading at 356.66 with a loss of -1.02% percent or –3.68 point.
Wednesday’s Factors and Events
One big reason for the gap in performance between the Dow and S&P and the NASDAQ is that the components of the first two indexes try to represent the economy more broadly, whereas more than half of the NASDAQ 100’s $12.9 trillion market cap consists of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) the two classes of Alphabet shares (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and (NASDAQ:GOOG), Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) and Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA).
Tuesday Activity
For the day the Dow is trading at 25,812.88 up with +0.85% percent or +217.08 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 3,100.29 up with +1.54% percent or +47.05 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 10,058.77 with +1.87% percent or +184.61 point.
Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,441.37 up with +1.42% percent or +20.16 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 831.89 up with +1.42% percent or +11.63 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,783.21 up with +1.32% percent or +23.20 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,427.23 up with +1.52% percent or +21.38 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,809.25 up with +1.56% percent or +27.76 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,717.47 up with +1.57% or +26.49 point.