After yesterday's speech by President Donald Trump on the Congress, stock index futures opened higher and traded with enhanced promotion on Wednesday.
Dow scored more than 100 points up, white S&P500 and the Nasdaq rose by 13 and 27 points respectively.
Markets closed lower during the previous US session as Dow fell by 0.12 percent, breaking the 12th consecutive session of gains.
Investors are digesting President Trump's economic plans, which he described in his first address to a joint session of Congress. He outlined plans for a $1 trillion infrastructure investment, health care reform, immigration reform and tax relief for businesses and the middle class.
Today there are a lot of news on the economic calendar - personal income and consumer spending, construction spending, ISM manufacturing, oil stocks and a report from the Fed's beige book.
The president of the New York Fed, William Dudley, raised market expectations for an interest rates hike on Tuesday afternoon, after saying he sees a rate hike in the "relatively near future".
Market expectations are for a rates hike on March 15 (when the central bank decides its next monetary policy) jumped to 67.5 percent, according to Thomson Reuters Eikon.
European futures stock index futures also rose after Trump's speech. EU Stoxx 600 climbed 1%, as construction and material goods also rose because of the infrastructure plans of Trump.
Meanwhile, oil markets registered a slight increase, as the Brent rose by 0.28% and WTI by 0.2%.
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