It’s another quiet and slightly positive day for stock markets around the world with many market participants still away this week. US index futures are showing flat to a gain of 0.25% for NASDAQ futures coming off a mixed day
US index futures are in the red this morning, with the three main contracts each down about 0.4%, giving back yesterday’s US index gains of 0.1% to 0.6%. European markets are also down this morning with the FTSE and the
Building on yesterday’s US market gains of 0.3%-0.4%, which came on the back of a stronger than expected ADP payrolls report (568K vs street 428K), overseas markets have been rebounding overnight as well. The particularly depressed Hang Seng popped 3.0%,