Dow stocks at 52 week highs include Intel (INTC), JPMorgan (JPM), Merck (MRK) and Procter & Gamble (PG).There are no Dow stock 52 week lows.

The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open down -53 points.

Monday the Dow was up +88.55 (+0.49%) at 18,329.04.

Year-to-date the Dow is up +5.19%.

There were 18 Dow stocks up Monday.

The Dow stock winners Monday were led by Exxon Mobil (XOM) +1.96% and Merck (MRK) +1.80%.

The Dow stock losers Monday were led by Wal-Mart (WMT) -1.05% and Procter & Gamble (PG) -1.04%.

Nike (NKE unch) was rated new ‘Positive’ at Susquehanna with a 12-month target price of $63.

Verizon (VZ) is still investigating just what happened at Yahoo and whether it caused “material” damage to the company signaling a possible effort to renegotiate the deal’s $4.8 billion price tag. Verizon also rejected the report that they might walk away from the deal.

European stocks are higher and Asian markets ended mostly higher.

The national average price of gasoline is down three-tenths of a cent at $2.255 per gallon.

Earnings Reports.

Nike (NKE) reported earnings on 9/27/2016 after the market close of $0.73, beating consensus of $0.556 per share.

JPMorgan (JPM) reports earnings on 10/17/2016 before the market open.

IBM (IBM) reports earnings on 10/14/2016 after the market close.

Goldman Sachs (GS) reports earnings on 10/18/2016 before the market open.

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) reports earnings on 10/18/2016 before the market open.

Intel (INTC) reports earnings on 10/18/2016 before the market open.

UnitedHealth (UNH) reports earnings on 10/18/2016 before the market open.

American Express (AXP) reports earnings on 10/19/2016 after the market close.

Microsoft (MSFT) reports earnings on 10/20/2016 after the market close.

Verizon (VZ) reports earnings on 10/20/2016 before the market open.

Travelers (TRV) reports earnings on 10/20/2016 before the market open.

General Electric (GE) reports earnings on 10/21/2016 before the market open.

McDonald’s (MCD) reports earnings on 10/21/2016 before the market open.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

Verizon (VZ)

Verizon (VZ) is up +8.59% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

1100 ET USDA weekly grain export inspections.

1100 ET Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari (non-voter) speaks at a town hall forum in Arden Hill, MN on ending too big to fail, the role of the Federal Reserve and other topics.

1600 ET USDA Weekly Crop Progress.