Dow stocks at 52 week highs include Merck (MRK). There are no Dow stock 52 week lows.

The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open up +95 points.

Monday, the Dow closed down -96.53 (-0.54%) at 17,640.84.

Year-to-date the Dow is down -1.02%.

There were 8 Dow stocks up Monday.

The top Dow stock winners Monday included Dupont (DD) +1.24% and Cisco (CSCO) +0.94%.

Dow stock losers Monday were led by Chevron (CVX) -2.15% and Exxon Mobil (XOM) -1.92%.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) will be announcing its Q414 earnings results on Wednesday, January 14th.

European stocks are higher and Asian markets ended with mixed.

The national average price of gasoline over the weekend is down 1.3 cents at $2.117 per gallon. Gas was $2.05 yesterday at our Gig Harbor Costco.

Earnings Reports.

JPMorgan (JPM) will report earnings on 1/14/2015 before the market open.

American Express (AXP) is expected to report earnings on 1/15/2015 after the market close.

Intel (INTC) will report earnings on 1/15/2015 after the market close.

Caterpillar (CAT) is expected to report earnings on 1/27/2015 before the market open.

Dupont (DD) will report earnings on 1/27/2015 before the market open.

General Electric (GE) will report earnings on 1/23/2015 before the market open.

Goldman Sachs (GS) will report earnings on 1/16/2015 before the market open.

International Business Machines (IBM) is expected to report earnings on 1/20/2015 after the market close.

Johnson & Johnson will report earnings on 1/20/2015 before the market open.

McDonald’s (MCD) will report earnings on 1/23/2015 before the market open.

3M (MMM) will report earnings on 1/27/2015 before the market open.

Microsoft (MSFT) will report earnings on 1/26/2015 after the market close.

Pfizer (PFE) will report earnings on 1/27/2015 before the market open.

Procter & Gamble (PG) is expected to report earnings on 1/27/2015 before the market open.

AT&T (T) will report earnings on 1/27/2015 after the market close.

Travelers (TRV) will report earnings on 1/22/2015 before the market open.

UnitedHealth (UNH) will report earnings on 1/21/2015 before the market open.

United Technologies (UTX) is expected to report earnings on 1/21/2015 before the market open.

Verizon (VZ) will report earnings on 1/22/2015 before the market open.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

United Technologies Corp. (UTX)

UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH) is up +1.44% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

1000 ET Nov JOLTS job openings expected 4.850 million, Oct 4.834 million.

1300 ET Treasury auctions $21 billion 10-year T-notes.

1400 ET Dec monthly budget statement expected +$3.000 billion, Nov -$56.818 billion.

1700 ET Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota discusses his 2015 outlook for the economy and monetary policy at an event in New York.