Dow stocks at 52 week highs include Boeing (BA), Caterpillar (CAT), Cisco (CSCO), Home Depot (HD), Microsoft (MSFT), United Technologies (UTX), Visa (V) and Wal-Mart (WMT). There are no Dow stock 52 week lows.

The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open up +67 points.

Monday the Dow was down -12.87 (-0.05%) at 25,283.00.

Year-to-date the Dow is up +2.28%.

There were 14 Dow stocks up Monday.

The Dow stock winners Monday were led by Caterpillar (CAT) +2.51% and Wal-Mart (WMT) +1.48%.

The Dow stock losers Monday were led by UnitedHealth (UNH) -1.74% and Goldman Sachs (GS) -1.45%.

US consumer credit jumped by 8.8% in November, its most in two years, to $3.83 trillion.

Jeff Bezos is now the richest person of all time. The Amazon CEO’s net worth reached $105.1 billion Monday. Maybe Amazon should be a Dow stock.

European stocks are higher and Asian markets ended higher.

The national average price of gasoline is down one-tenth of a cent at $2.491 per gallon.

Earnings Reports.

Nike (NKE) reported earnings on 12/21/17 after the market close of $0.46, beating estimates of $0.437 per share.

JPMorgan (JPM) reports earnings on 1/12/2018 at an unspecified time.

UnitedHealth (UNH) reports earnings on 1/16/2018 before the market open.

Goldman Sachs (GS) reports earnings on 1/17/2018 at an unspecified time.

American Express (AXP) reports earnings on 1/18/2017 after the market close.

IBM (IBM) reports earnings on 1/18/2018 after the market close.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

Intel (INTC)

Intel (INTC) is down -3.08% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

1000 ET Nov JOLTS job openings expected +29,000 to 6.025 million, Oct -181,000 to 5.996 million.

1000 ET Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari (non-voter) speaks in a moderated Q&A at an event in Wayzata, MN.

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