Dow stocks at 52 week highs include Home Depot (HD).There are no Dow stock 52 week lows.

The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open up +40 points.

Wednesday the Dow was down -64.65 (-0.27%) at 23,526.18.

Year-to-date the Dow is up +19.04%.

There were 9 Dow stocks up Wednesday.

The Dow stock winners Wednesday were led by Verizon (VZ) +1.99% and General Electric (GE) +1.79%.

The Dow stock losers Wednesday were led by Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) -0.76% and Microsoft (MSFT) -0.73%.

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ -0.76%) may move higher this morning after China announced that it will remove the tariff on diapers and some baby formula imports as of Dec 1.

European stocks are mostly higher and Asian markets ended higher.

The national average price of gasoline is down three-tenths of a cent at $2.518 per gallon.

Earnings Reports.

There are no Dow stocks set to report earnings in the near term.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

IBM (IBM)

IBM (IBM) is down -9.16% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

0830 ET USDA weekly Export Sales.

0945 ET Markit Nov manufacturing PMI expected +0.4 to 55.0, Oct +1.5 to 54.6. Nov Markit services PMI expected unch at 55.3, Oct unch at 55.3.