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

The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open up +13 points.

Wednesday, the Dow was up +185.34 (+1.06%) at 17,602.61.

Year-to-date the Dow is down -1.24%.

There were 28 Dow stocks up Wednesday.

The Dow stock winners Wednesday were led by Cheron (CVX) +3.92% and Exxon Mobil (XOM) +3.27%.

The Dow stock losers Wednesday was Nike (NKE) -2.58% and Disney (DIS) -1.11%.

Hopefully the Santa rally continues today.

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

The national average price of gasoline is down three-tenths of a cent at $2.006 per gallon.

Earnings Reports.

Nike (NKE) reported earnings on 12/22/15 after the market close of $0.90 per share, beating consensus of $0.85 per share. Nike shares also split 2:1 Wednesday 12/23/15.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

McDonald’s (MCD)

McDonald’s (MCD) is up +26.79% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

0830 ET Weekly initial unemployment claims expected -1,000 to 270,000, previous -11,000 to 271,000. Weekly continuing claims expected -38,000 to 2.200 million, previous -7,000 to 2.238 million.

0830 ET USDA weekly Export Sales.

1100 ET Treasury announces amount of 2-year T-notes (previous $26 billion), 5-year T-notes (previous $35 billion) and 7-year T-notes (previous $29 billion) to be auctioned Dec 28-30.

1300 ET NYSE closes early.

1315 ET Early closes for CME equity and interest rate futures markets.

1345 ET Early closes for CME energy, metals and DME products.