The CAC 40 Futures is trading at 4,483.50 with +0.95% percent or +42.00 point.The FTSE 100 Futures is trading at 5,723.50 up with +1.51% percent or +85.00 point.  The DAX Futures is trading at 10,447.00 up with +0.56% or +58.50 point. The EURO Stoxx 50 Futures trading at 2,842.00 up with +1.14% percent or +32.00 point.

TODAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS

European stock markets weakened, as the region’s finance ministers failed to agree on how best to finance the response to the coronavirus crisis, reviving old doubts about the long-term viability of the euro.

Markets had already opened weakly in the wake of the late drop in U.S. stocks on Tuesday, driven by unrelenting bad news regarding infection and death rates across the U.S.

YESTERDAY ACTIVITY

For the day France’s CAC  40 closed at 4,442.75 up with +0.10% percent or +4.49 point.the FTSE 100 closed at 5,677.73 with a loss of –0.47% percent or –26.72 point. Germany’s DAX closed at 10,332.89 with a loss of -0.23% percent or –23.81   point.

WORLD MARKETS

For the day the Dow is trading at 23,433.57 up with +3.44% percent or +779.71  point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,749.98 up with +3.41% percent or +90.57 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 8,090.90 up with +2.58% percent or +203.64  point.

In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 19,345.77 with a loss of –0.039% percent or –7.47 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 24,147.99 up with  +0.74%  percent or +177.62  point. China’s Shanghai  Composite is trading at 2,830.25 up with +0.53% percent or +14.88  point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 30,866.28 up with  +3.25% percent or +972.32 point at 12:15 PM.