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 -109 points.

Thursday the Dow was up +20.88 (+0.08%) at 25,995.87.

Year-to-date the Dow is up +5.16%.

There were 13 Dow stocks up Thursday.

The Dow stock winners Thursday were led by Boeing (BA) +1.32% and Visa (V) +1.28%.

The Dow stock losers Thursday were led by Chevron (CVX) -3.10% and Apple (AAPL) -1.66%.

The U.S. economy added 201,000 jobs in August. The unemployment rate remained unchanged at a very low 3.9 percent. Wage growth continued to be an issue in the report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with average hourly earnings nudging slightly upward to 2.9 percent annual growth from July’s 2.7 percent. The average hourly pay for employees on private non-farm payrolls rose by 10 cents, to $27.16.

European stocks are lower and Asian markets ended mostly lower.

The national average price of gasoline is unchanged 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

American Express (AXP)

American Express (AXP) is up +6.13% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

12:30 Average Hourly Earnings (YoY) (YoY) (Aug), 2.7%, 2.7%

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

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

12:30 FOMC Member Rosengren Speaks

12:30 Government Payrolls (Aug), -13.0K

12:30 Manufacturing Payrolls (Aug), 24K, 37K

12:30 Nonfarm Payrolls (Aug), 191K, 157K

12:30 Participation Rate (Aug), 62.9%

12:30 Private Nonfarm Payrolls (Aug), 190K, 170K

12:30 U6 Unemployment Rate (Aug), 7.5%

12:30 Unemployment Rate (Aug), 3.8%, 3.9%

13:00 FOMC Member Mester Speaks

14:30 ECRI Weekly Annualized (WoW), -0.2%

14:30 ECRI Weekly Index, 147.3

16:45 FOMC Member Kaplan Speaks

17:00 U.S. Baker Hughes Oil Rig Count, 862

19:30 CFTC Copper speculative net positions, 0.3K

19:30 CFTC Crude Oil speculative net positions, 550.3K

19:30 CFTC Gold speculative net positions, -3.1K

19:30 CFTC S&P 500 speculative net positions, 144.5K

19:30 CFTC Silver speculative net positions, -16.6K