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The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open up +152 points.

Thursday the Dow was up +293.60 (+1.21%) at 24,483.05.

Year-to-date the Dow is down -0.96%.

There were 24 Dow stocks up Thursday.

The Dow stock winners Thursday were led by Intel (INTC) +3.17%, Boeing +3.09% and DowDuPont (DWDP) +2.69%.

The Dow stock losers Thursday were led by McDonald’s (MCD) -1.05%, Procter & Gamble (PG) -0.61% and Wal-Mart (WMT) -0.56%.

JPMorgan (JPM) +1.61% climbed 0.7% in premarket after posting a first-quarter profit rise of 35% to top Wall Street estimates. Must be before charges.

European stocks are higher and Asian markets ended mostly lower.

The national average price of gasoline is up 2.2 cents at $2.697 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) reported earnings on 4/13/2018 before the market open of $2.37, missing estimates calling for $2.92 per share.

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.

General Electric (GE) reports earnings on 4/20/2018 before the market open.

Procter & Gamble (PG) reports earnings on 4/20/2018 before the market open.

Caterpillar (CAT) reports earnings on 4/24/2018 before the market open.

Coca Cola (KO) reports earnings on 4/24/2018 before the market open.

3M (MMM) reports earnings on 4/24/2018 before the market open.

United Technologies (UTX) reports earnings on 4/24/2018 before the market open.

Verizon (VZ) reports earnings on 4/24/2018 before the market open.

Boeing (BA) reports earnings on 4/25/2018 before the market open.

Visa (V) reports earnings on 4/25/2018 after the market close.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

Microsoft (MSFT)

Microsoft (MSFT) is up +9.40% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

08:00 IEA Monthly Report

12:00 FOMC Member Rosengren Speaks

13:00 FOMC Member Bullard Speaks

14:00 JOLTs Job Openings (Feb), 6.110M, 6.312M

14:00 Michigan 5-Year Inflation Expectations (Apr), 2.50%

14:00 Michigan Consumer Expectations (Apr), 88.1, 88.8

14:00 Michigan Consumer Sentiment (Apr), 100.6, 101.4

14:00 Michigan Current Conditions (Apr), 120.0, 121.2

14:00 Michigan Inflation Expectations (Apr), 2.8%

14:30 ECRI Weekly Annualized (WoW), 4.5%

14:30 ECRI Weekly Index, 148.0

17:00 U.S. Baker Hughes Oil Rig Count, 808

17:00 FOMC Member Kaplan Speaks

19:30 CFTC Copper speculative net positions, 20.9K

19:30 CFTC Crude Oil speculative net positions, 699.5K

19:30 CFTC Gold speculative net positions, 166.6K

19:30 CFTC S&P 500 speculative net positions, -9.9K

19:30 CFTC Silver speculative net positions, -17.0K