The Nikkei 225 Future is trading at 22,300.00 with a loss of -0.84% percent or -190.00 point . The NSE Nifty Future is trading at 10,652.00 with a loss of -0.25% percent or -26.85 point. The Hang Seng Future is trading at 30,526.00 with a loss of -0.76% percent or -234.00 point.
TODAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS
The Nikkei NIK, -0.55% closed up 0.1%, as the yen steadied. Meanwhile, benchmarks in South Korea SEU, -0.88% and Taiwan Y9999, -0.22% rose 0.7% and 0.4%, respectively.
Airlines and electronics stocks helped the Nikkei start on the right foot; ANA9202, +0.22% was 2.2% higher. Meanwhile, Tokyo Electron 8035, -1.07% rose a further 1.5% and Sony 6758, -0.44% was up 2% as the dollar USDJPY, -0.60% climbed to ¥109.70. And as is the norm, falling Treasury yields were hitting Japanese life insurers, with Dai-ichi 8750, -0.83% off more than 1%.
PREVIOUS DAY ACTIVITY
WORLD MARKETS
For the day the Dow is trading at 24,753.09 with a loss of -0.24%percent or -58.67 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,721.33 with a loss of -0.24% percent or -6.43 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 7,433.85 up with +0.13% percent or +9.42 point.
Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,626.93 with a loss of -0.079% percent or -1.29 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 1,004.64 with a loss of -0.046% percent or -0.46 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,946.87 with a loss of -0.24% percent or -4.68 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,194.53 with a loss of -0.26% percent or -3.15 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,618.01 with a loss of -0.21% percent or -3.37 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,510.27 with a loss of -0.22% percent or -3.31 point;
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