FTSE Futures Morning Update on 12 March 2019

The FTSE 100 Futures is trading at 7,045.00  with a loss of -1.16% percent or -82.50 point. The CAC 40 Futures is trading at 5,261.50 up with +0.58% percent or +30.50 point. The DAX Futures is trading at  11,612.20 up with +0.13%  percent or +15.20  point. The EURO Stoxx 50 Futures trading at 3,236.00 up with +0.12% percent or +4.00 point.

TODAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

London stocks edged higher on Monday, even as reports that the Prime Minister was on her way to Strasbourg for last minute talks with European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker sent the pound flying higher.

Earlier in the session, a number of reports had suggested the Prime Minister was looking to downgrade Tuesday’s promised ‘meaningful vote’ to a provisional vote, in a gambit to keep the pressure on Brussels

PREVIOUS DAY ACTIVITY

For the day the FTSE 100 closed at 7,130.62 up with +0.37% percent or +26.31 point. France’s CAC  40 closed at 5,265.96 up with +0.66% percent or +34.75 point. Germany’s DAX closed at 11,543.48 up with +0.75% percent or +85.64 point.

WORLD MARKETS

For the day the Dow is trading at 25,650.88 with +0.79% percent or +200.64 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,783.30 up with +1.47% percent or +40.23 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 7,558.06 up with +2.02% percent or +149.92  point.

In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 21,503.69  up with +1.79% percent or  +378.60 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 28,883.59  up with +1.33% percent or +380.29  point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 3,060.31  up with +1.10% percent or +33.31 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 37,393.65  up with +0.92% percent or +339.55 point at 12:15 PM.