The DAX Futures is trading at 14,134.50 with +0.51% or +71.50 point.The FTSE 100 Futures is trading at 6,585.20 with +0.42% percent or +27.40 point. The CAC 40 Futures is trading at 5,698.00 up with +0.00% percent or +0.00 point. The EURO Stoxx 50 Futures trading at 3,708.00 up with +0.32% percent or +12.00point.

TODAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

Germany were flat year-on-year in January of 2021, after sinking 1.2 percent in December. Increases in scrap and residual materials (34.2 percent); ores, metals and semi-finished metal products (8.9 percent); and grain, raw tobacco, seeds and animal feed (9.5 percent) were offset by falls in cost of live animals (-29 percent); petroleum products (-9.6 percent); meat (-5.9 percent); and data processing equipment and software (-4.8 percent). On a monthly basis, wholesale prices jumped 2.1 percent, the biggest increase since March of 1974, mainly due to cost of petroleum products.

YESTERDAY ACTIVITY

For the day Germany’s DAX closed at 14,049.89 up with +0.064% percent or +8.98 point.the FTSE 100 closed at 6,589.79 up with +0.94%percent or +61.07 point. France’s CAC  40 closed at 5,703.67 up with -0.60%percent or  +33.85 point.

WORLD MARKETS

For the day the Dow is trading at 31,458.40 up with +0.088%percent or  +27.70 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 3,934.83 up with +0.47% percent or  +18.45 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 14,095.47 up with +0.50% percent or  +69.70 point.

In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at at 30,062.03 with 1.84%percent or  +541.96 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 30,173.57 up with +0.45% percent or +134.85 point. China’s Shanghai  Composite is trading at 3,655.09 with +1.43% percent or +51.60 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 52,112.16 up with +percent or +567.86 point at 12:15 PM.