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 down -13 points.

Thursday the Dow was up +69.17 (+0.33%) at 20,728.49.

Year-to-date the Dow is up +4.89%.

There were 18 Dow stocks up Thursday.

The Dow stock winners Thursday were led by Exxon Mobil (XOM) +2.05% and American Express (AXP) +1.23%.

The Dow stock losers Thursday were led by Nike (NKE) -1.13% and Procter & Gamble (PG) -0.44%.

Boeing (BA +0.20%) was awarded a $2.2 billion contact for 17 P-8A Poseidon jets.

Intel (INTC +0.51%) was rated new ‘Outperform’ at Macquarie Research with a 12-month target price of $40.

Consumer spending, the Fed’s preferred inflation measure, climbed 2.1 percent from a year earlier, the most since March 2012.

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

The national average price of gasoline is up nine-tenths of a cent at $2.314 per gallon.

Earnings Reports.

Nike (NKE) reported earnings on 3/21/2017 after the market close of $0.68, beating estimates calling for $0.524 per share..

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

Verizon (VZ)

Verizon (VZ) is down -8.09% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

0830 ET Feb personal spending expected +0.2%, Jan +0.2%. Feb personal income expected +0.4%, Jan +0.4%.

0830 ET Feb PCE deflator expected +0.1% m/m and +2.1% y/y, Jan +0.4% m/m and +1.9% y/y. Feb core PCE deflator expected +0.2% m/m and +1.7% y/y, Jan +0.3% m/m and +1.7% y/y.

0945 ET Mar Chicago PMI expected -0.5 to 56.9, Feb +7.1 to 57.4.

1000 ET Final-Mar University of Michigan U.S. consumer sentiment index expected unch at 97.6, prelim-Mar +1.3 to 97.6.

1000 ET Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari participates in a Q&A at the Annual Banking Law Institute conference in Minneapolis.

1200 ET USDA Q1 Quarterly Grain Stocks and prospective planting data.