The DAX Futures is trading at 11,616.50  with 0.00%  percent or -0.40 point.The FTSE 100 Futures is trading at 7,160.00 up with +0.12% percent or +8.80 point. The CAC 40 Futures is trading at 5,293.00  up with +0.16% percent or +8.50 point.  The EURO Stoxx 50 Futures trading at 3,324.00  with a loss of -0.06% percent or -2.00 point.

TODAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

Germany’s annual inflation rate is expected to pick up to 1.6 percent in February 2019 from an 11-month low of 1.4 percent in the previous month and in line with market consensus, a preliminary estimate showed. Prices of energy and food are set to rise at a faster pace while services inflation should remain unchanged. Inflation Rate in Germany averaged 2.38 percent from 1950 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 11.54 percent in October of 1951 and a record low of -7.62 percent in June of 1950.

PREVIOUS DAY ACTIVITY

For the day Germany’s DAX closed at 11,620.74  up with +0.24% percent or +28.08 point. the FTSE 100 closed at 7,183.43  up with +0.69% percent or +49.04 point. France’s CAC  40 closed at 5,297.52  up with +0.21% percent or +10.95 point. 

WORLD MARKETS

For the day the Dow is trading at 25,806.63 with a loss of -0.050% percent or -13.02 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,789.65  with a loss of -0.11% percent or -3.16 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 7,576.36  with a loss of -0.016% percent or -1.21  point.

In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 21,596.81   with a loss of -0.60% percent or -129.47 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 29,020.27  up with +0.20% percent or +58.67 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 3,101.15  up with +1.54% percent or +46.90 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 36,625.60 up with +0.50% percent or +183.06 point at 12:15 PM.