The Dow Market Happenings For Tuesday, April 17, 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 +205 points.

Monday the Dow was up +212.90 (+0.87%) at 24,573.04.

Year-to-date the Dow is down -0.59%.

There were 25 Dow stocks up Monday.

The Dow stock winners Monday were led by UnitedHealth (UNH) +2.69% and Merck (MRK +2.59%

The Dow stock losers Monday were led by General Electric (GE) -1.19% and Nike (NKE) -0.28%.

Merk & Co (MRK +2.59%) was upgraded to ‘Overweight’ from ‘Equal-Weight’ at Morgan Stanley with a price target of $68.

See Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson and UnitedHealth earnings below.

European stocks are higher and Asian markets ended mostly lower.

The national average price of gasoline is up five-tenths of a cent at $2.719 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) reported earnings on 4/17/2018 before the market open of $6.95, beating estimates of $5.75 per share.

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) reports earnings on 4/17/2018 before the market open of $2.06, beating estimates of $2.029 per share.

UnitedHealth (UNH) reports earnings on 4/17/2018 before the market open of $3.04, beating estimates of $2.968 per share.

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.

Intel (INTC) reports earnings on 4/26/2018 after the market close.

Microsoft (MSFT) reports earnings on 4/26/2018 after the market close.

Chevron (CVX) reports earnings on 4/27/2018 before the market open.

Exxon Mobil (XOM) reports earnings on 4/27/2018 before the market open.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

Pfizer (PFE)

Pfizer (PFE) is up +0.86% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

12:30 Building Permits (MoM) (Mar), 2.5%, 0.7%, -4.1%

12:30 Building Permits (Mar), 1.354M, 1.330M, 1.321M

12:30 Housing Starts (Mar), 1.319M, 1.270M, 1.295M

12:30 Housing Starts (MoM) (Mar), 1.9%, 1.9%, -3.3%

12:55 Redbook (MoM), 0.5%, 0.3%

12:55 Redbook (YoY), 3.0%, 2.9%

9 min Capacity Utilization Rate (Mar), 77.9%, 77.7%

9 min FOMC Member Williams Speaks

9 min Industrial Production (YoY), 4.4%

9 min Industrial Production (MoM) (Mar), 0.3%, 0.9%

9 min Manufacturing Production (MoM) (Mar), 0.1%, 1.3%

54 min FOMC Member Quarles Speaks

15:00 FOMC Member Harker Speaks

15:30 4-Week Bill Auction, 1.620%

17:10 Chicago Fed President Evans Speaks

20:30 API Weekly Crude Oil Stock, 1.758M

21:40 FOMC Member Bostic Speaks

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