Dow stocks at 52 week highs include American Express (AXP), Goldman Sachs(GS) and JPMorgan (JPM).There are no Dow stock 52 week lows.

The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open up +29 points.

Thursday the Dow was up +59.71 (+0.30%) at 19,852.24.

Year-to-date the Dow is up +13.93%.

There were 19 Dow stocks up Thursday.

The Dow stock winners Thursday were led by Dupont (DD) +1.60% and JPMorgan (JPM) +1.50%.

The Dow stock losers Thursday were led by United Technologies (UTX) -1.04% and Nike (NKE) -0.97%.

Merck (MRK +0.92%) gained over 1% in after-hours trading after it won a $2.54 billion patent judgement against Gilead in Hepatitis C royalties.

European stocks are higher and Asian markets ended mostly higher.

The national average price of gasoline is up three-tenths of a cent at $2.229 per gallon.

Earnings Reports.

Nike (NKE) reports earnings on 12/20/16 after the market close.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

Dupont (DD)

Dupont (DD) is up +12.45% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

0830 ET Nov housing starts expected -7.0% to 1.23 million, Oct +25.5% to 1.323 million. Nov building permits expected -1.6% to 1.24 million, Oct +2.9% to 1.260 million.

1230 ET Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker (non-voter) speaks on a panel at the Charlotte Chambers 2016 Economic Outlook Conference.