The Dow Market Happenings For Friday, March 16, 2018

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

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