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

The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open up +65 points.

Wednesday, the Dow closed down -195.84 (-1.13%) at 17,191.37.

Year-to-date the Dow is down -3.54%.

There were 3 Dow stocks up Wednesday.

Dow stock winners Wednesday included Boeing (BA) +5.40% and Caterpillar (CAT) +0.20%.

Dow stock losers Wednesday were led by Chevron (CVX) -4.20% Microsoft (MSFT) -3.45%.

McDonald’s (MCD) rose more than 3% in after-hours trading after it was announced that CEO Don Thompson will retire and Steve Easterbrook will replace him.

Visa Inc. (V) is expected to post its Q1 earnings at $2.49 per share on revenue of $3.34 billion after the close today.

European stocks are mostly lower and Asian markets ended mostly lower.

The national average price of gasoline is up six-tenths of a cent at $2.044 per gallon.

Earnings Reports.

Visa (V) will report earnings on 1/29/2015 after the market close.

Chevron (CVX) will report earnings on1/30/2015 before the market open.

Exxon Mobil (XOM) will report earnings on 2/2/2015 before the market open.

Disney will report earnings on 2/3/2015 after the market close.

Merck (MRK) will report earnings on 2/4/2015 before the market open.

Coca Cola will report earnings on 2/10/2015 before the market open.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

The Coca-Cola Co. (KO)

The Coca-Cola Co. (KO) is down -0.71% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

0830 ET Weekly initial unemployment claims expected -7,000 to 300,000, previous -10,000 to 307,000. Weekly continuing claims expected -38,000 to 2.405 million, previous +15,000 to 2.443 million.

0830 ET USDA weekly Export Sales.

1000 ET Dec pending home sales expected +0.5% m/m and +10.9% y/y, Nov +0.8% m/m and +1.7% y/y.

1130 ET Treasury auctions $35 billion 5-year T-notes.

1300 ET Treasury auctions $29 billion 7-year T-notes.