The DAX Futures is trading at 13,236.20 with +0.25% or +32.70 point. The FTSE 100 Futures is trading at 6,506.50 up with +0.42% percent or +27.50 point. The CAC 40 Futures is trading at 5,543.00 with -0.60% percent or -33.50 point. The EURO Stoxx 50 Futures trading at 3,508.00 with a loss of -0.23% percent or -8.00 point.

TODAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

New orders for German manufactured goods jumped 2.9% month-over-month in October of 2020, following an upwardly revised 1.1 perrcent increase in September and well above market expectations of 1.5 percent. Orders in the auto sector increased 1 percent and orders for intermediate goods went up 2.3 percent and those for capital goods 3.8 percent. In contrast, orders for consumer goods fell 2.2 percent. Domestic orders rose 2.4 percent and foreign orders 3.2 percent, with those from the Euro Area rising 0.5 percent and those from other countries 4.8 percent. Compared with February, the month before the coronavirus pandemic, factory orders were 0.8 percent higher

YESTERDAY ACTIVITY

For the day Germany’s DAX closed at 13,252.86 with a loss of –percent or 60.38 point.the FTSE 100 closed at 6,490.27 up with +percent or  +26.88 point. France’s CAC  40 closed at 5,574.36 with a loss of – percent or –8.65 point.

WORLD MARKETS

For the day the Dow is trading at 29,969.52 up with +percent or +85.73 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 3,666.72 with a loss of – percent or  point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 12,377.18 up with + percent or  +27.82 point.

In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at at 26,751.24 with a loss of –percent or  -58.13 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 26,760.80 up with +percent or +32.30 point. China’s Shanghai  Composite is trading at 3,440.14 with a loss of – percent or ?1.99 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 44,916.60 up with percent or  +283.95 point at 12:15 PM.