The CAC 40 Futures is trading at 4,621.00  with a loss of -1.04% percent or -48.60  point.The FTSE 100 Futures is trading at 6,609.00  with a loss of -0.97% percent or -64.50 point.The DAX Futures is trading at 10,499.50  with a loss of -0.94% percent or -100.00 point. The EURO Stoxx 50 Futures trading at 2,952.00  with a loss of -1.17% percent or -35.00 point.

TODAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

The US stock market will close on Monday at 1 pm EST. Markets in the UK, Holland, France, Ireland and Spain will also close early on Monday. The following markets are closed all day: Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Czechia, Hungary, and Poland. And the government is continuing what many politicians have projected to be a potentially lengthy partial shutdown.

PREVIOUS DAY ACTIVITY

For the day France’s CAC  40 closed at 4,626.39  with a loss of – 1.45% percent or -67.99 point. the FTSE 100 closed at 6,685.99  with a loss of -0.52% percent or -35.18 point.  Germany’s DAX closed at 10,633.82 up with +0.21% percent or +22.72 point.

WORLD MARKETS

For the day the Dow is trading at 21,792.20  with a loss of  -2.91% percent or -653.17 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,351.10 with  a loss of -2.71% percent or -65.52 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 6,192.92  with a loss of -5.14% percent or  -335.49 point.

In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 19,327.06  up with +0.89% percent or +171.32 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 25,651.38   with a loss of -0.40% percent or -102.04 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,504.44  with a loss of -0.015% percent or  -0.38 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 35,254.92  with a loss of -0.61% percent or -215.23 point at 12:15 PM.