The DAX Futures is trading at 12,272.90 up with +0.74% percent or +89.90 point.The FTSE 100 Futures is trading at 7,436.40 up with +0.33% percent or +24.40 point. The CAC 40 Futures is trading at 5,527.50  with a loss of -0.64% percent or -35.50 point.  The EURO Stoxx 50 Futures trading at 3,435.00 with a loss of -0.03% percent or -1.00 point.

TODAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

Germany’s annual inflation rate was confirmed at 1.3 percent in March 2019, the lowest since April last year and compared to February’s 1.5 percent, as services and food prices increased at slower pace. 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 12,222.39 up with +0.57% percent or +69.32 point. the FTSE 100 closed at 7,459.88  with a loss of -0.15% percent or -11.44 point. France’s CAC  40 closed at 5,580.38 up with +0.31% percent or +17.29 point. 

WORLD MARKETS

For the day the Dow is trading at 26,559.54  up with +0.40% percent or +106.88 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,905.03 up with +0.16% percent or +4.58 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 7,998.06  up with +0.025% percent or +1.98 point.

In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 22,217.90  up with +0.078% percent or +17.34 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 29,963.26  with a loss of -0.54% percent or -161.42   point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 3,215.04  with a loss of -1.70% percent or -55.76 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 38,869.10   with a loss of -0.69% percent or -271.12 point at 12:15