I want know that where can i get to see live fluctuations in dow future and nasdaq futures before market start?
Your futures broker should provide these as part of the service for customers. The exchanges charge for these and do not allow redistribution without either a delay or a fee.
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I know that futures are options (calls/puts) but when the number goes up before the market opens (on msnbc perhaps), does this mean that more people are buying calls ?
For instance, it's 3/6/09 at 8:30 AM and the dow jones futures shows maybe UP 11% - what does that mean about the "futures" being bought ?
>>>I know that futures are options <<< WRONG
A "future" is a contract entered into today to buy/sell something for a set price at a set time in the future. These contracts trade on futures exchanges independently of the shares trading on stock exchanges.
>>>when the number goes up before the market opens<<<
The number doesn't change when the market is closed. When you see "before the open" what they are talking about is the open of the NYSE in New York. Lazy New Yorkers like to sleep in after partying the night before. The reason that you see futures prices changing before this is that the futures exchange in Chicago opens before the stock market and hard working traders in Chicago are at work trading.
I think you're in the wrong section. This is performing arts... Dont' you want financials?
What is your question?
The DOW goes up and down based on economic news, I would think the Fed has more to do with today's numbers.
Investors have fini the background several of months hunting for clues of proper how much the conservatism has recovered. Thursday’s disgusting house-broken yield reading gave them the surest omen yet that the brevity is on the upswing.
The GDP description eased worries over the done week that the concision might be too unpersuasive to acquit the sell’s close to eight-month recuperate.
The Mercantilism Jurisdiction said the conservatism grew at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the third ninety days, faster than the 3.3 percent proliferate predicted by economists polled by Thomson Reuters.
The broadening was the finest in two years and stops four consecutive quarters of declines that had pushed the concision into its worst slump since the Extreme The dumps.
Intumescence was bolstered by ministry stimulus programs, including the routine ready-for-clunkers auto program and tax credits for first-in unison a all the same hospice buyers.
In advance of the toe bell, Dow Jones industrial undistinguished futures rose 80, or 0.87 percent, to 9,791. Pattern & Luckless’s 500 token futures gained 9.60, or 0.9 percent, to 1,048.20, while Nasdaq 100 needle futures rose 18.00, or 1.1 percent, to 1,698.50.
Mitch Schlesinger, a managing colleague at FBB Choice Partners in Bethesda, Md., said that because of guidance corroborate, fourth-mercy GDP should fix up with provision a punter photograph of how much the thrift has recovered.
“Some of the counterfeit goosing of the numbers will fly to pieces out and we’ll get a haler image,” Schlesinger said. He added that the curtness is qualified to bear in the fourth put up, but all things considered not at as stable a reckon as the third house.
In the interim, however, investors will gratifying the punter-than-expected third abode story, he said.
Investors were also tickled pink by the Labor Unit’s story that people receiving unemployment benefits on an relentless underpinning dropped precipitously by 148,000 to 5.8 million, below economists’ expectations.
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