U.S INDEX MARKET
The U.S. Dollar Index is trading at 94.75 with a loss of -0.13% percent or -0.12 point. The Dow Futures is trading at 24,926.00 with a loss of -0.73% percent or -183.00 point. The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 2,767.50 with a loss of -0.61% percent or -17.00 point. The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 7,230.00 with a loss of -0.71% percent or -50.75 point.
TODAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS
The dollar edged up towards a seven-month high on Monday as investors bet the United States and China would avoid a full-blown trade war, although tensions between the two slowed its gains.
The dollar index versus a basket of six major currencies crept up 0.1 percent to 94.862.
The index was close to 95.131, a peak scaled on Friday, thanks to the dollar soaring more than 1 percent last week after the U.S. Federal Reserve gave a hawkish signal on interest rates while the European Central Bank struck a dovish tone.
PREVIOUS DAY ACTIVITY
For the day the Dow is trading at 25,090.48 with a loss of -0.34% percent or -84.83 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,779.66 with a loss of -0.10% percent or -2.83 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 7,746.38 with a loss of 0.19% percent or -14.66 point.
Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,683.91 with a loss of -0.048% percent or -0.82 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 1,039.54 up with +0.043% percent or +0.45 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,992.37 with a loss of -0.17% percent or -3.33 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,220.26 with a loss of -0.12% percent or -1.52 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at
1,656.18 with a loss of -0.087% percent or -1.45 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,544.43 with a loss of -0.091% percent or -1.40 point;