Investing.com - The S&P/ASX 200 is on track for a significant surge Wednesday, following suit with the upward trajectory experienced by the New York Stock Exchange.
As of 9:45 am AEDT, ASX 200 Futures were up by 2.2%, indicating a potentially strong market opening. Meanwhile, the yield on the U.S. 10-year note dropped 19 basis points to 4.45%.
Earnings reports from Aristocrat Leisure Ltd (ASX:ALL) and Nufarm Ltd (ASX:NUF) are eagerly anticipated today. Additionally, several companies including Computershare Ltd. (ASX:CPU), Flight Centre Ltd (ASX:FLT), HMC Capital Ltd (ASX:HMC), Imugene Ltd (ASX:IMU), Paladin Energy Ltd (ASX:PDN), Platinum Asset Management Ltd (ASX:PTM), Seek Ltd (ASX:SEK), and Tyro Payments Ltd (ASX:TYR) are due to hold their annual meetings. Dicker Data is also expected to trade ex-dividend.
Meanwhile, the Australian dollar strengthened by 2.02% to 65.06 US cents. However, Bitcoin saw a decrease of 3.8% to $US35,385 as of 6.33 am AEDT.
On Wall Street, major indices experienced gains at 4 pm, with the Dow Jones up by 1.4%, the S&P 500 by 1.9%, and the Nasdaq by 2.4%. Major companies such as BHP (ASX:BHP) Group Ltd ADR (NYSE:BHP), Rio Tinto ADR (NYSE:RIO), Atlassian Corp Plc (NASDAQ:TEAM), Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), and NYSE Fang also saw increases.
Looking ahead at today's agenda, investors will be focused on local third quarter wage price index data, New Zealand's September net migration, Japan's third quarter GDP, China's October industrial production and retail sales, UK's October CPI, and Eurozone's September industrial production and trade balance. US data for October PPI and retail sales, along with the NY Empire manufacturing index for November.