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 up +13 points.

Thursday the Dow was up +115.54 (+0.47%) at 24,873.66.

Year-to-date the Dow is up +0.62%.

There were 20 Dow stocks up Thursday.

The Dow stock winners Thursday were led by McDonald’s (MCD) +2.13% and UnitedHealth (UNH) +1.82%.

The Dow stock losers Thursday were led by Intel (INTC) -1.89% and DowDupont (DWDP) -1.61%.

European stocks are higher and Asian markets ended lower.

The national average price of gasoline is up five-tenths of a cent at $2.532 per gallon.

Earnings Reports.

Nike (NKE) reports earnings 3/22/2018 after the market close.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

American Express (AXP)

American Express (AXP) is down -4.95% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

12:30 Building Permits (MoM) (Feb), -5.7%, 5.9%

12:30 Building Permits (Feb), 1.298M, 1.320M, 1.377M

12:30 Housing Starts (Feb), 1.236M, 1.290M, 1.329M

12:30 Housing Starts (MoM) (Feb), -7.0%, 6.0%, 10.1%

13:15 Capacity Utilization Rate (Feb), 78.1%, 77.7%, 77.4%

13:15 Industrial Production (YoY), 3.7%

13:15 Industrial Production (MoM) (Feb), 1.1%, 0.3%, -0.3%

13:15 Manufacturing Production (MoM) (Feb), 1.2%, 0.5%, -0.2%

44 min JOLTs Job Openings (Jan), 5.890M, 5.811M

44 min Michigan 5-Year Inflation Expectations (Mar), 2.50%

44 min Michigan Consumer Expectations (Mar), 89.8, 90.0

44 min Michigan Consumer Sentiment (Mar), 99.3, 99.7

44 min Michigan Current Conditions (Mar), 114.5, 114.9

44 min Michigan Inflation Expectations (Mar), 2.7%

14:30 ECRI Weekly Annualized (WoW), 5.7%

14:30 ECRI Weekly Index, 149.3

17:00 U.S. Baker Hughes Oil Rig Count, 796

19:30 CFTC Copper speculative net positions, 41.9K

19:30 CFTC Crude Oil speculative net positions, 686.5K

19:30 CFTC Gold speculative net positions, 183.8K

19:30 CFTC S&P 500 speculative net positions, 128.9K

19:30 CFTC Silver speculative net positions, 6.2K