Dow Futures Update : 30 Dec 2021

U.S. stock higher in pre-market trading for Dec 30.The Dow Futures is trading at 36,486.20 with a loss of  -0.01% percent or -2.40 point.The S&P 500 Futures is  trading at 4,792.20 with a loss of -0.02% percent or -0.90 point.The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 16,499.90 up with +0.05% percent or +8.90 point.

In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 28,823.14 with a loss of –0.29% percent or –83.74   point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 23,134.76 up  with +0.21% ercent or +0.21% point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 3,623.74 up with 0.74% percent or +26.74   point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 57,969.88 up with +0.28% percent or +163.39  point at 12:15 PM.For the day the FTSE 100 closed at 7,420.69 up with +0.66% percent or +48.59 point. France’s CAC 40 closed at 7,161.52 with a loss of –0.27% percent or ?19.59  point.Germany’s DAX closed at 15,852.25  with a loss of –0.70% percent or ?111.45 point.

 

 

THURSDAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

As this pandemic drags on, it’s possible that new variants could evade our countermeasures and become fully resistant to current vaccines or past infection, necessitating vaccine adaptations,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Geneva.

 

 

WEDNESDAY ACTIVITY

For the day the Dow is trading at 35,950.56 up with +0.55% percent or +196.67 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 4,725.79 up with +0.62% percent or +29.23 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 15,653.37 up with +0.85% percent or +131.48 point.

Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 2,249.24 up with 0.12% percent or +2.74 point. the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 1,408.81 up with +0.41% percent or +5.81 point. the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 2,847.83 up with +0.55% percent or +15.59  point. the S&P 100 Index closed at 2,210.10 up  with +0.049% percent or  +1.09 point.the Russell 3000 Index closed at 2,801.87 up with 0.13% percent or +3.52 point. the Russell 1000 Index closed at 2,659.50 up with +0.13% or +3.35  point.