Dow stocks at 52 week highs include Cisco (CSCO), Disney (DIS), Home Depot (HD) and Pfizer (PFE). There are no Dow stock 52 week lows.

The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open up +42 points.

Thursday, the Dow was up +110.24 (+0.62%) at 17,972.38.

Year-to-date the Dow is up 0.84%.

There were 24 Dow stocks up Thursday.

Dow stock winners Thursday included Cisco Systems (CSCO) +9.39% and JPMorgan (JPM) +2.06%.

Dow stock losers Thursday were led by American Express (AXP) -6.43% and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) -1.93%.

Visa Inc. (V) today announced that it is expanding the use of new security technology that replaces the traditional 16-digit Visa account number with a unique series of numbers, helping to prevent exposure of sensitive consumer account information in online and mobile payments.

European stocks are higher and Asian markets ended mostly higher.

The national average price of gasoline is up eight-tenths of a cent at $2.239 per gallon.

Earnings Reports.

Wal-Mart (WMT) reports earnings on 2/19/15 before the open.

Home Depot (HD) reports earnings on 2/24/15 before the open.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

JPMorgan Chase and Co. (JPM)

JPMorgan Chase and Co. (JPM) is down -4.81% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

0830 ET Jan import price index expected -3.2% m/m and -8.9% y/y, Dec -2.5% m/m and -5.5% y/y.

1000 ET Preliminary U.S. Feb University of Michigan consumer confidence expected unch at 98.1, Jan +4.5 to 98.1.

1330 ET Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher speaks at a community luncheon in San Antonio.