FTSE Futures Morning Update on 04 May

UK PRE MARKET

The FTSE 100 Futures is trading at 7,491.50  with a loss of  -0.20% percent or -15.00 point. The CAC 40 Futures is trading at 5,481.00  with a loss of  -0.16% percent or -9.00 point . The DAX Futures is trading at 12,757.00 up with  +0.43%  percent or +54.00 point . The EURO Stoxx 50 Futures is trading at 3,482.00 up with +0.29%  percent or +10.00 point.

TODAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

London stock finished Friday where they started the week as some disappointing trading updates and a bumper crop of companies going ex-dividend took points off the main indices, while sterling could not hold onto its earlier gains from a rather weak recovery in the key services sector.

The FTSE 100 closed down 40.5 points or 0.54% at 7,502.69, roughly where it started the week, as the pound was roughly flat against the dollar after rising and falling earlier and steadily losing more territory against the euro to 1.1336.

Sterling had earlier popped a little higher on a data showing that UK services sector activity recovered, though not particularly impressively, last month after losing the previous month.

PREVIOUS DAY ACTIVITY
 
For the day the FTSE 100 closed at 7,502.69  with a loss of  -0.54% percent or -40.51 point. France’s CAC 40 closed at 5,501.66  with a loss of  -0.50% percent or  -27.56 point. Germany’s DAX closed at 12,690.15   with a loss of -0.88% percent or  -112.10 point.

WORLD MARKETS

For the day the Dow is trading at 23,930.15  up with +0.022% percent or +5.17 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,629.73 with a loss of  -0.23% percent or  -5.94 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 7,088.15  with a loss of  -0.18% percent or -12.75 point.

In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 22,472.78  with a loss of -0.16% percent or -35.25 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 29,984.42   with a loss of  -1.09% percent or -328.95 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 3,091.03   with a loss of -0.32% percent or  -9.83 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 34,935.93 with a loss of -0.48% percent or -167.21  point at 12:15 PM.