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 down -25 points.

Thursday, the Dow was up +5.74 (+0.03%) at 17,408.25.

Year-to-date the Dow is down -2.33%.

There were 10 Dow stocks up Thursday.

Dow stock winners Thursday were led by Cisco (CSCO) +2.87% and Boeing (BA) +1.67%.

The Dow stock losers Thursday were led by Intel (INTC) -2.00% and Caterpillar (CAT) -1.47%.

DuPont (DD -0.47%) was upgraded to ‘Overweight’ from ‘Neutral’ at JPMorgan Chase.

Reuters reports that 8 banks that include Goldman Sachs (GS -0.19%), Barclays (BCS +0.17%) , Bank of America (BAC +0.57%) , BNP Paribas (BNPQY -0.59%) , Citigroup (C +0.74%) , HSBC (HSBC -0.02%) , Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS -1.41%) , and UBS (UBS +0.09%) agreed to pay $2 billion to settle a currency rigging suit.

European stocks are lower and Asian markets ended mixed.

The national average price of gasoline is up 3.5 cents at $2.653 per gallon.

Earnings Reports.

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

Cisco (CSCO) reports earnings on 8/12/2015 after the market close.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

McDonald’s (MCD)

McDonald’s (MCD) is up +6.05% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

0830 ET Jul PPI final demand expected +0.1% m/m and -0.9% y/y, Jun +0.4% m/m and -0.7% y/y. Jul PPI ex food & energy expected +0.1% m/m and +0.5% y/y, Jun +0.3% m/m and +0.8% y/y.

0915 ET Jul industrial production expected +0.3%, Jun +0.2%. Jul capacity utilization expected +0.2 to 78.0%, Jun +0.1 to 77.8%.

1000 ET Preliminary U.S. Aug University of Michigan consumer sentiment expected +0.4 to 93.5, Jul -3.0 to 93.1.