FTSE Futures Morning Update on 10 November

UK PRE MARKET

The FTSE 100 Futures are trading at 7,470.00 for up with +0.02%percent or +1.50 point. The CAC 40 Futures are trading at 5,409.500 for up with +0.07% percent or +4.00 point . The DAX Futures are trading at 13,198.20 for up with +0.09% percent or +11.70 point . The EURO Stoxx 50 Futures are trading at 3,650.0 with a loss of -0.03% percent or -1.0 point.

TODAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

London stocks closed higher on Thursday despite weakness in the housebuilding sector following a trading statement from Persimmon.

IG analyst Joshua Mahony said sentiment was also being hit by rising fears over a potential no-deal Brexit, just 16-months away from the UK’s exit from the EU.

“A meeting between the US secretary of commerce and a number of international banks with a large UK footprint has led to an insistence that jobs will move abroad en mass in the near future given the current pace of progress,” he said.

PREVIOUS DAY ACTIVITY
For the day the FTSE 100 closed at 7,484.10 with a loss of  –0.61% percent or –45.62 point. France’s CAC 40 closed at 5,407.75 with a loss of  –1.16% percent or –63.68 point. Germany’s DAX closed at 13,182.56  with a loss of –1.49% percent or –199.86  point.

WORLD MARKETS

For the day the Dow are trading at 23,461.94  with a loss of  –0.43% percent or –101.42 point. The S&P 500 are trading at 2,584.62  with a loss of –0.38% percent or –9.76 point. The Nasdaq Composite are trading at 6,750.05  with a loss of –0.58% percent or –39.06 point.

In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 are trading at 22,681.42 with  a loss of –0.82% percent or –187.29 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng are trading at 29,148.83 for up with +0.84% percent or  +242.64 point. China’s Shanghai Composite are trading at 3,427.79 for up with +0.04% percent or +12.26 point. India’s BSE Sensex are trading at 33,210.57  with a loss of –31.66 percent or –31.66 point at 12:15 PM.