The U.S.Dollar Index is trading at 93.63 up with +0.19% percent or +0.18 point.The Dow Futures is trading at 27,602.00 up with +0.28% percent or +77.00 point. The S&P 500 Futures is trading at 3,351.38 up with +0.48% percent or +15.88 point.The Nasdaq Futures is trading at 11,199.00 up with +1.25% percent or +138.50 point.
TODAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS
The dollar found support on Wednesday as a stock market slide spooked investors into selling riskier currencies, while worries about Brexit pushed the pound down to a new six-week low.
The moves have made for a nearly 2% bounce in the greenback, against a basket of currencies, from the more than two-year lows it touched earlier in the month. The safe-haven yen also climbed to a one-week high of 105.83 per dollar.
PREVIOUS DAY ACTIVITY
For the day the Dow is trading at 27,500.89 with a loss of – percent or –632.42 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 3,331.84 with a loss of – percent or –95.12 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 10,847.69with a loss of – percent or –465.44 point.
WORLD MARKETS
Other leading market index closes included the small-cap Russell 2000 Index closed at 1,504.59 with a loss of -2.00% percent or -30.71 point; the S&P 600 Small-Cap Index closed at 870.50 with a loss of -2.39% percent or -21.31 point; the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index closed at 1,855.17 with a loss of – percent or –42.69 point; the S&P 100 Index closed at 1,546.90 with a loss of – percent or –49.20 point; the Russell 3000 Index closed at 1,940.99 with a loss of – percent or –56.89 point; the Russell 1000 Index closed at 1,845.55 with a loss of –or −55.07 point.