The Nikkei 225 Future is trading at 22,580.00 up with +0.09% percent or +20.00 point . The NSE Nifty Future is trading at 11,159.20 up with +0.20% percent or +22.75 point. The Hang Seng Future is trading at 28,747.00 with a loss of -0.63% percent or -181.00 point.
TODAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS
Trading was mixed in Asia-Pacific stock markets early Thursday, as slight declines in Australia, China, Hong Kong and Japan were being offset by bigger gains in the region’s emerging markets like South Korea, Indonesia and Singapore.
Trading cues were lacking as investors responded to cross-asset shifts like an overnight pullback in the dollar and Treasury yields as well as a rebound in oil. S&P 500 futures ESU8, -0.18% were down 0.2%, but futures for the tech-heavy Nasdaq NQU8, -0.86% were down nearly 1% following the deep plunge in Facebook stock FB, +1.32% in after-hours trading Wednesday.
PREVIOUS DAY ACTIVITY
WORLD MARKETS
For the day the Dow is trading at 25,414.10 up with +0.68% percent or +172.16 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,846.07 up with +0.91% percent or +25.67 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 7,932.24 up with +1.17% percent or +91.47 point.
In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 22,586.87 with a loss of -0.12% percent or -27.38 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 28,780.55 with a loss of -0.49% percent or -140.35 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,882.23 with a loss of -0.74% percent or -21.42 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 36,997.44 up with +0.38% percent or +139.21 point at 12:15 PM.