The FTSE 100 Futures is trading at 5,723.50  with +1.51% percent or +85.00 point. The CAC 40 Futures is trading at 4,483.50 with +0.95% percent or +42.00 point. The DAX Futures is trading at 10,447.00 up with +0.56% or +58.50 point. The EURO Stoxx 50 Futures trading at 2,842.00 with +1.14% percent or +32.00 point.

TODAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

Stocks finished the Wednesday on a mixed note amid warnings from the World Health Organisation against unwinding quarantine or social-distancing measures prematurely, even as estimates of the likely huge economic toll of the pandemic continue to roll in.

“To think that we’re close to an endpoint would be dangerous,” said Hans Kluge, WHO’s regional director for Europe.

YESTERDAY ACTIVITY

For the day the FTSE 100 closed at 5,677.73 with a loss of –0.47%percent or ?26.72 point. France’s CAC  40 closed at 4,442.75 up with +0.10% percent or +4.49 point.Germany’s DAX closed at 10,332.89 with a loss of -0.23% percent or –23.81   point.

WORLD MARKETS

For the day the Dow is trading at 23,433.57 up with +3.44% percent or +779.71  point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,749.98  up with +3.41% percent or +90.57 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 8,090.90  up with +2.58% percent or +203.64  point.

In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 19,345.77  with a loss of –0.039% percent or –7.47  point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 24,147.99 up with  +0.74%  percent or +177.62    point. China’s Shanghai  Composite is trading at 2,830.25 up with +0.53% percent or +14.88  point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 30,866.28 up with  +3.25% percent or +972.32  point at 12:15 PM.