Dow stocks at 52 week highs include Home Depot (HD). There are no Dow stock 52 week lows.

The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open up +20 points.

Friday, the Dow closed up +18.88 (+0.11%) at 17,098.45.

Year-to-date the Dow is up +3.15%. Nasdaq is up +9.7%, S&P 500 +8.4% and Russell 2000 +0.9%.

Last week the Dow was up +0.6%, Nasdaq +0.9%, S&P 500 +0.8% and Russell 2000 +1.2%.

Dow stock winners Friday included Microsoft (MSFT) +1.23% and Home Depot (HD) +1.07%.

Dow stock losers Friday included United Technologies (UTX) -1.04% and Visa (V) -0.97%.

There were 20 Dow stock winners Friday.

Boeing (BA) was awarded a $234.7 milion contract for the production and delivery of 24 AH-6I aircraft to Saudi Arabia.

European stocks are higher and Asian markets ended mostly higher.

The national average price of gasoline is down three-tenths of a cent at $3.434 per gallon.

Earnings Reports.

There are no Dow stocks set to report earnings in the near term.

Notable earnings reports from Monay include:

No earnings on Monday as it was a Market Holiday.

Stocks reporting earnings today include:

Aviat Networks (AVNW) is expected to report a fourth quarter loss of $0.07 on revenue of $85.01 million, compared to last year’s EPS of $0.01 on revenue of $109.00 million.

Conn’s (CONN) is expected to report second quarter EPS of $0.75 on revenue of $353.65 million, compared to last year’s EPS of $0.52 on revenue of $270.69 million.

Fabrinet (FN) is expected to report fourth quarter EPS of $0.35 on revenue of $172.02 million, compared to last year’s EPS of $0.35 on revenue of $159.93 million.

Pike Electric (PIKE) is expected to report fourth quarter EPS of $0.13 on revenue of $215.34 million, compared to last year’s EPS of $0.09 on revenue of $200.19 million.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

Travelers Companies Inc. (TRV)

Travelers Companies Inc. (TRV) is up +4.61% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

0945 ET Revised Aug Markit manufacturing PMI, prelim-Aug -1.5 to 55.8.

1000 ET Aug ISM manufacturing index expected -0.1 to 57.0, Jul +1.8 to 57.1. Aug ISM new orders sub-index, Jul +4.t to 63.4. Aug ISM employment sub-index, Jul +5.4 to 58.2. Aug ISM prices paid sub-index expected -0.7 to 58.8, Jul +1.5 to 59.5.

1000 ET Jul construction spending expected +1.0% m/m, Jun -1.8% m/m.

1100 ET USDA weekly grain export inspections.

1600 ET USDA weekly crop progress.