The Dow Market Happenings For Thursday, July 30, 2015

Dow stocks at 52 week highs include Pfizer (PFE) and Nike (NKE).There are no Dow stock 52 week lows.

The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open down -100 points.

Wednesday, the Dow was down -127.94 (-0.73%) at 17,440.59.

Year-to-date the Dow is down -0.40%.

There were 26 Dow stocks up Wednesday.

Dow stock winners Wednesday were led by Microsoft (MSFT) +2.10% and Merck (MRK) +1.77%.

Dow stock losers Wednesday were led by Dupont (DD) -0.79% and Caterpillar (CAT) -0.58%.

Procter & Gamble (PG +0.49%) reporte earnings of 1.00 vs 0.95 consensus,

European stocks are mostly higher and Asian markets ended mixed.

The national average price of gasoline is down 1.2 cents at $2.674 per gallon.

Earnings Reports.

Dupont (DD) reports earnings on 7/28/2015 before the market open.

Merck (MRK) reports earnings on 7/28/2015 before the market open.

Pfizer (PFE) reports earnings on 7/28/2015 before the open.

Procter & Gamble (PG) reports earnings on 7/30/2015 before the market open.

Chevron (CVX) reports earnings on 7/31/2015 before the market open.

Exxon Mobil (XOM) reports earnings on 7/31/2015 before the market open.

Disney (DIS) reports earnings on 8/4/2015 after the market close.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

Home Depot (HD)

Home Depot (HD) is up +10.56% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

0830 ET Weekly initial unemployment claims expected +15,000 to 270,000, previous -26,000 to 255,000. Weekly continuing claims expected -2,000 to 2.205 million, previous -9,000 to 2.207 million.

0830 ET Q2 GDP expected +2.5% (q/q annualized), Q1 -0.2%. Q2 personal consumption expected +2.7%, Q1 +2.1%. Q2 GDP price index expected +1.5%, Q1 unch. Q2 core PCE deflator expected +1.6% q/q, Q1 +0.8% q/q.

0830 ET USDA weekly Export Sales.

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

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