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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