Nasdaq 100 futures taking advantage of press speculation

As noted a little earlier all the major global stock markets and stock market futures have gotten a boost from there Washington Post article and that has seen stocks in Europe advance further and of course it has lifted the opening outlook for the US stock markets. In terms of gains across the US futures right now, the Nasdaq 100 is leading those and pricing an even higher opening than seen earlier today. To remind the reader, the index was the best performing US stock market on Friday, when it gained 350 points and closed at 21,326. The futures are right now pricing it to reopen some 200 points above that close, currently around 21,530. Of course the one big caveat to all this; is if US officials pour cold water on the news report. We shall have to see on that