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The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open down -31 points.

Thursday the Dow was up +14.80 (+0.07%) at 20,662.95.

Year-to-date the Dow is up +4.56%.

There were 16 Dow stocks up Thursday.

The Dow stock winners Thursday were led by Caterpillar (CAT) +1.68% and Chevron (CVX) +0.60%.

The Dow stock losers Thursday were led by Procter & Gamble (PG) -0.63% and Intel (INTC) -0.52%.

Wal-Mart (WMT -0.81%) was upgraded to ‘Outperform’ from ‘Market Perform’ at Telsy Advisory with a price target of $82.

US employers added 98,000 nonfarm payrolls in March, far fewer than forecast. Economists had expected the US economy to add 180,000 jobs. The unemployment rate fell to a post-crisis low of 4.5%, and the number of people who were working part-time but preferred full-time jobs fell by 151,000 to 5.5 million.

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

The national average price of gasoline is up 1.2 cents at $2.381 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.

JPMorgan (JPM) reports earnings on 4/13/2017 before the market open.

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) reports earnings on 4/18/2017 before the market open.

Goldman Sachs (GS) reports earnings on 4/18/2017 before the market open.

UnitedHealth (UNH) reports earnings on 4/18/2017 before the market open.

IBM (IBM) reports earnings on 4/18/2017 after the market close.

American Express (AXP) reports earnings on 4/19/2017 after the market close.

Travelers (TRV) reports earnings on 4/20/2017 before the market open.

Verizon (VZ) reports earnings on 4/20/2017 before the market open.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

Apple (AAPL)

Apple (AAPL) is up +24.04% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

n/a President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping hold talks on Thu-Fri at Mar-a-Lago, Florida.

0700 ET Mar Challenger job cuts, Feb -40.0% y/y.

0830 ET Weekly initial unemployment claims expected -8,000 to 250,000, previous -3,000 to 258,000. Weekly continuing claims expected -22,000 to 2.030 million, previous +65,000 to 2.052 million.

0830 ET USDA weekly Export Sales.

0930 ET San Francisco Fed President John Williams (non-voter) speaks on a ECB panel in Frankfurt on Do monetary policy frameworks need to be adjusted in a world of (potentially) low natural interest rates? If so, how?

1100 ET Treasury announces amount of 3-year T-notes (previous $24 billion), 10-year T-notes (previous $20 billion) and 30-year T-bonds (previous $12 billion) to be auctioned Apr 10-12.