Dow stocks at 52 week highs include Intel (INTC).There are no Dow stock 52 week lows.

The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open down -71 points.

Wednesday the Dow was down -11.96 (-0.06%) at 18,526.14.

Year-to-date the Dow is up +6.32%.

There were 13 Dow stocks up Wednesday.

The Dow stock winners Wednesday were led by Caterpillar (CAT) +2.00% and Visa (V) +0.86%.

The Dow stock losers Wednesday were led by Wal-Mart (WMT) -1.29% and Home Depot (HD) -0.98%

Apple (AAPL +0.61%) was downgraded to ‘Market Perform’ from ‘Outperform’ at Wells Fargo Securities.

Nike (NKE +0.54%) was downgraded to ‘Neutral’ from ‘Overweight’ at Piper Jaffray.

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

The national average price of gasoline is down seven-tenths of a cent at $2.185 per gallon.

Earnings Reports.

There are no Dow stocks set to report earnings in the near term.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

Cisco (CSCO)

Cisco (CSCO) is up +17.07% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

0830 ET Weekly initial unemployment claims expected +2,000 to 265,000, previous +2,000 to 263,000. Weekly continuing claims expected -8,000 to 2.151 million, previous +14,000 to 2.159 million.

1100 ET EIA Weekly Petroleum Status Report.

1100 ET Treasury announces amount of 3-year T-notes (previous $24 billion), 10-year T-notes (previous $23 billion) and 30-year T-bonds (previous $15 billion) to be auctioned Sep 12-13.

1500 ET Jul consumer credit expected +$16.00 billion, Jun +$12.32 billion.