Dow stocks at 52 week highs include Apple (AAPL). There are no Dow stock 52 week lows.
The Market
Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open up +35 points.
Wednesday the Dow was up +22.51 (+0.09%) at 25,974.99.
Year-to-date the Dow is up +4.99%.
There were 19 Dow stocks up Wednesday.
The Dow stock winners Wednesday were led by Caterpillar (CAT) +1.70% and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) +1.60%.
The Dow stock losers Wednesday were led by Visa (V) -3.47% and Microsoft (MSFT) -2.88%.
European stocks are mostly higher and Asian markets ended lower.
The national average price of gasoline is up 1.1 cents at $2.854 per gallon.
Earnings Reports.
There are no Dow stocks set to report earnings in the near term.
Today’s Featured Dow Stock
3M (MMM) is down -10.00% year-to-date.
Financial Calendar
11:30 Challenger Job Cuts (Aug), 27.1K
11:30 Challenger Job Cuts (YoY), -4.2%
12:15 ADP Nonfarm Employment Change (Aug), 188K, 219K
12:30 Continuing Jobless Claims, 1,710K, 1,708K
12:30 Initial Jobless Claims, 214K, 213K
12:30 Jobless Claims 4-Week Avg., 212.25K
12:30 Nonfarm Productivity (QoQ) (Q2), 2.9%, 2.9%
12:30 Unit Labor Costs (QoQ) (Q2), -0.9%, -0.9%
Tentative Bloomberg Consumer Confidence, 62.1
13:45 Markit Composite PMI (Aug), 55.0, 55.0
13:45 Services PMI (Aug), 55.2, 55.2
14:00 Cap Goods Ship Non Defense Ex Air (MoM), -1.7%, -1.7%
14:00 Durable Goods Orders (MoM), -1.7%
14:00 Factory Orders (MoM) (Jul), -0.6%, 0.7%
14:00 Factory orders ex transportation (MoM) (Jul), 0.4%
14:00 FOMC Member Williams Speaks
14:00 ISM Non-Manufacturing Business Activity (Aug), 56.9, 56.5
14:00 ISM Non-Manufacturing Employment (Aug), 56.1
14:00 ISM Non-Manufacturing New Orders (Aug), 57.0
14:00 ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI (Aug), 57.0, 55.7
14:00 ISM Non-Manufacturing Prices (Aug), 63.4
14:30 Natural Gas Storage, 62B, 70B
15:00 Crude Oil Inventories, -1.294M, -2.566M
15:00 Crude Oil Imports, -0.657M
15:00 Cushing Crude Oil Inventories, 0.058M
15:00 Distillate Fuel Production, -0.247M
15:00 EIA Weekly Distillates Stocks, 0.742M, -0.837M
15:00 Gasoline Production, 0.086M
15:00 Heating Oil Stockpiles, -0.524M
15:00 Gasoline Inventories, -0.810M, -1.554M