The FTSE 100 Futures is trading at 6,896.80 up with +0.14% percent or +9.30 point. The CAC 40 Futures is trading at 6,197.00 with a loss of -0.19% percent or -11.50 point. The DAX Futures is trading at 15,300.00 up with +0.08% or +11.50 point. The EURO Stoxx 50 Futures trading at 3,966 up with  +0.08% percent or +8 point.

TODAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

London stocks managed to finish just above the waterline on Today, after a turbulent session, with investors rifling through a raft of positive economic data out of the UK.

The FTSE 100 ended the session up 0.01% at 6,938.56, and the FTSE 250 eked out gains of 0.03% to 22,372.26.

Sterling was mixed, meanwhile, last strengthening 0.08% on the dollar to $1.3850, but weakening 0.41% against the euro to €1.1472.

YESTERDAY ACTIVITY

For the day the FTSE 100 closed at 6,938.24 up with +percent or +42.95 point. France’s CAC  40 closed at 6,267.28 up with percent or +56.73 point.Germany’s DAX closed at 15,320.52 with  percent or +124.55 point.

WORLD MARKETS

For the day the Dow is trading at 34,043.49  up with percent or +227.59 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 4,180.17  up with percent or +45.19 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 14,016.81 up with + percent or +198.39 point.

In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at at 29,141.84 up with percent or +121.21 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 29,086.76 up with + percent or +8.01 point. China’s Shanghai  Composite is trading at 3,469.55 with a loss of – percent or ?6.80 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 48,586.26 up with + percent or +707.81 point at 12:15 PM.