Dow stocks at 52 week highs include Apple (AAPL). There are no Dow stock 52 week lows.

The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open down -20 points.

Monday the Dow was down -76.42 (-0.38%) at 19,887.38.

Year-to-date the Dow is up +0.63%.

There were 8 Dow stocks up Monday.

The Dow stock winners Monday were led by Merck (MRK) +1.38% and Apple (AAPL) +0.92%.

The Dow stock losers Monday were led by Exxon Mobil (XOM) -1.65% and IBM (IBM) -1.11%.

American Express (AXP +0.52%) was upgraded to ‘Outperform’ from ‘Market Perform’ at Oppenheimer with an 18-month target price of $98.

Travelers Cos (TRV -0.80%) was downgraded to ‘Sell’ from ‘Neutral’ at Goldman Sachs.

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

The national average price of gasoline is down four-tenths of a cent at $2.365 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.

JPMorgan (JPM) reports earnings on 1/13/2016 before the market open.

UnitedHealth (UNH) reports earnings on 1/17/2017 before the market open.

Goldman Sachs (GS) reports earnings on 1/18/2017 before the market open.

American Express (AXP) reports earnings on 1/19/2017 after the market close.

IBM (IBM) reports earnings on 1/19/2017 after the market close.

General Electric (GE) reports earnings on 1/20/2017 before the market open.

McDonald’s (MCD) reports earnings on 1/23/2017 before the market open.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

Caterpillar (CAT)

Caterpillar (CAT) is down -0.40% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

1000 ET Revised Nov wholesale inventories, prelim-Nov +0.9% m/m. Nov wholesale trade sales, Oct +1.4% m/m.

1000 ET Nov JOLTS job openings expected -34,000 to 5.5 million, Oct -97,000 to 5.534 million.

1300 ET Treasury auctions $24 billion of 3-year T-notes.