FTSE Futures Update : 29 July 2021

The DAX Futures is trading at 15,546.50 up with +0.06% or +10.00point.The FTSE 100 Futures is trading at 6,955.20 up with +0.07% percent or +4.70 point. The CAC 40 Futures is trading at 6,597.50 up with +1.05% percent or +68.50 point.  The EURO Stoxx 50 Futures trading at 4,098.00 up with +0.05% percent or +2.00 point.

TODAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Germany stood at 3.7 percent in June 2021, unchanged from the previous month. Still, it was the lowest jobless rate since April 2020, as the number of unemployed declined 1.2 percent to 1.58 million while employment edged up 0.1 percent to 41.42 million. Still, the number of persons in employment in June was down by 1.3 percent, or 573,000 on February 2020, the month before restrictions were imposed due the coronavirus pandemic in Germany. The youth unemployment rate, measuring job-seekers under 25 years old, declined to 7.5 percent from 7.7

YESTERDAY ACTIVITY

For the day Germany’s DAX closed at 15,570.36 up with +0.33% percent or +51.23 point.the FTSE 100 closed at 7,016.63 up with +0.29% percent or +20.55 point. France’s CAC 40 closed at 6,609.31 up with +1.18% percent or +77.39 point.

WORLD MARKETS

For the day the Dow is trading at 34,930.93 with a loss of -0.36% percent or -127.59 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 4,400.64 with a loss of -0.019% percent or -0.82 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 14,762.58  up with +0.70% percent or +102.01 point.

In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 27,782.42 up  with +0.73% percent or +200.76 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 26,155.86 up  with +2.68% percent or +681.98 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 3,402.75 up with +1.22% percent or +41.17 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 52,693.35 up with +0.48% percent or +249.64 point at 12:15 PM.