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 down -198 points.

Thursday the Dow was up +240.92 (+0.99%) at 24,505.22.

Year-to-date the Dow is down -0.87%.

There were 26 Dow stocks up Thursday.

The Dow stock winners Thursday were led by DowDuPont (DWDP) +2.75% and Boeing (BA) +2.74%.

The Dow stock losers Thursday were led by Pfizer (PFE) -1.11% and Procter & Gamble (PG) -0.32%.

The economy added 103,000 jobs, fewer than the 185,000 expected by economists. Unemployment remained at 4.1%, the lowest since 2000. Wages grew 2.7% from a year ago, in line with expectations.

European stocks are lower and Asian markets ended mostly lower.

The national average price of gasoline is up four-tenths of a cent at $2.662 per gallon.

Earnings Reports.

Nike (NKE) reported earnings on 3/22/2018 after the market close of $-0.57, missing estimates calling for $0.555 per share.

JPMorgan (JPM) reports earnings on 4/13/2018 before the market open.

Goldman Sachs (GS) reports earnings on 4/17/2018 before the market open.

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) reports earnings on 4/17/2018 before the market open.

UnitedHealth (UNH) reports earnings on 4/17/2018 before the market open.

IBM (IBM) reports earnings on 4/17/2018 after the market close.

American Express (AXP) reports earnings on 4/18/2018 after the market close.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

Intel (INTC)

Intel (INTC) is up +9.14% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

12:30 Average Hourly Earnings (MoM) (Mar), 0.3%, 0.3%, 0.1%

12:30 Average Weekly Hours (Mar), 34.5, 34.5, 34.5

12:30 Government Payrolls (Mar), 1.0K, 6.0K

12:30 Manufacturing Payrolls (Mar), 22.0K, 20.0K, 32.0K

12:30 Nonfarm Payrolls (Mar), 103K, 193K, 326K

12:30 Participation Rate (Mar), 62.9%, 63.0%

12:30 Private Nonfarm Payrolls (Mar), 102K, 190K, 320K

12:30 U6 Unemployment Rate (Mar), 8.0%, 8.2%

12:30 Unemployment Rate (Mar), 4.1%, 4.0%, 4.1%

14:30 ECRI Weekly Annualized (WoW), 5.2%

14:30 ECRI Weekly Index, 149.8

17:00 U.S. Baker Hughes Oil Rig Count, 798

17:30 Fed Chair Powell Speaks

19:00 Consumer Credit (Feb), 15.20B, 13.91B

19:30 CFTC Copper speculative net positions, 19.2K

19:30 CFTC Crude Oil speculative net positions, 715.8K

19:30 CFTC Gold speculative net positions, 203.4K

19:30 CFTC S&P 500 speculative net positions, -9.4K

19:30 CFTC Silver speculative net positions, -13.7K