The DAX Futures is trading at 15,135.00 with a loss of -0.35% or -53.00 point.The FTSE 100 Futures is trading at 6,904.20 with a loss of -0.39% percent or -27.30 point. The CAC 40 Futures is trading at 6,265.00 up with +0.19% percent or +12.00 point. The EURO Stoxx 50 Futures trading at 3,950.00 with a loss of -0.15% percent or -6.00 point.
TODAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS
Germany’s consumer price inflation rate is expected to pick up to 2.0 percent year-on-year in April 2021, the highest since April 2019 and slightly above market expectations of 1.9 percent, a preliminary estimate showed. Goods prices should advance at a faster pace (2.6 percent vs 1.9 percent in March), boosted by a jump in energy cost (7.9 percent vs 4.8 percent) and a larger increase in food prices (1.9 percent vs 1.6 percent). Meanwhile, services inflation is likely to remain unchanged at 1.6 percent, with rent prices advancing 1.3 percent. On a monthly basis, consumer prices are expected to advance 0.7 percent in April, also above forecasts of a 0.5 percent rise.
YESTERDAY ACTIVITY
For the day Germany’s DAX closed at 15,154.20 with a loss of – percent or ?137.98 point.the FTSE 100 closed at 6,961.48 up with percent or ?2.19 point. France’s CAC 40 closed at 6,302.57 up with percent or ?4.41 point.
WORLD MARKETS
For the day the Dow is trading at 34,060.36 up with +percent or +239.98 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 4,211.47 up with percent or +28.29 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 14,082.55 up with + percent or +31.52 point.
In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at at 28,770.35 with a loss of –percent or ?283.62 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 28,799.80 with a loss of – percent or –503.46 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 3,435.67 with a loss of – percent or –39.23 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 49,411.58 with a loss of – percent or ?354.36 point at 12:15 PM.