DAX Futures Morning Update on 22 February 2019

The DAX Futures is trading at 11,446.30  up with +0.19% percent or +22.20 point.The FTSE 100 Futures is trading at 7,196.507,155.50 up with +0.08% percent or +6.10 point. The CAC 40 Futures is trading at 5,194.00 up with +0.70% percent or +36.00 point.  The EURO Stoxx 50 Futures trading at 3,264.50  up with +0.18% percent or +6.00 point.

TODAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

Germany’s annual inflation rate was confirmed at 1.4 percent in January 2019, the lowest since April last year and below December’s revised figure of 1.6 percent, mainly due to a slowdown in energy inflation. 

Goods prices advanced 1.3 percent in January, as prices were up not only for energy and food but also, among other things, for newspapers and periodicals (4.9 percent) as well as beer and tobacco products (3 percent each). However, there were also some goods that showed price decreases as, for example, telephones (-8.3 percent), consumer electronics (-5.9 percent) and information processing equipment (-5.3 percent).

PREVIOUS DAY ACTIVITY

For the day Germany’s DAX closed at 11,401.97 up with +0.82% percent or +92.76 point. the FTSE 100 closed at 7,228.62  up with +0.69% percent or +49.45 point. France’s CAC  40 closed at 5,195.95  up with +0.69% percent or +35.43 point. 

WORLD MARKETS

For the day the Dow is trading at 25,954.44 up with +0.24% percent or +63.12 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,784.70 up with  +0.18% percent or +4.94 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 7,489.07 up with +0.031% percent or +2.30 point.

In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 21,464.23 up with +0.15% percent or +32.74 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 28,578.20  up with +0.22% percent or +64.15 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,748.62   with a loss of -0.46% percent or -12.60 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 35,851.25 up with +0.27% percent or +94.99 point at 12:15 PM.