There are no Dow stocks at 52 week highs. There are no Dow stock 52 week lows.

The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open up +35 points.

Tuesday the Dow was up +11.23 (+0.06%) at 19,945.04.

Year-to-date the Dow is up +14.46%.

There were 21 Dow stocks up Tuesday.

The Dow stock winners Tuesday were led by Apple (AAPL) +0.64% and Cisco (CSCO) +0.49%.

The Dow stock losers Tuesday were led by Nike (NKE) -1.19% and Procter & Gamble (PG) -0.42%.

The two highest Dow stock gainers for 2016 are Caterpillar (CAT) +39.13% and UnitedHealth (UNH) +38.25%.

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

The national average price of gasoline is down five-tenths of a cent at $2.291 per gallon.

Earnings Reports.

Nike (NKE) reported earnings on 12/20/16 after the market close of $0.50, beating estimates calling for $0.431 per share.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

UnitedHealth (UNH)

UnitedHealth (UNH) is up +38.25% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

1000 ET Nov pending home sales expected +0.5% m/m, Oct +0.1% m/m and +0.2% y/y.

1030 ET Dec Dallas Fed manufacturing outlook survey expected unch at 10.2, Nov +11.7 to 10.2.

1130 ET Treasury auctions $13 billion of 2-year floating-rate notes.

1300 ET Treasury auctions $34 billion of 5-year T-notes.