Dow stocks at 52 week highs include American Express (AXP), Merck (MRK), Microsoft (MSFT), Nike (NKE), Pfizer (PFE) and Visa (V). There are no Dow stock 52 week lows.

The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open up +21 points.

Thursday the Dow was up +147.07 (+0.57%) at 26,145.99.

Year-to-date the Dow is up +5.77%.

There were 23 Dow stocks up Thursday.

The Dow stock winners Thursday were led by Apple (AAPL) +2.42% and IBM (IBM) +1.62%.

The Dow stock losers Thursday were led by McDonald’s (MCD) -1.42% and Home Depot (HD) -1.19%.

European stocks are higher and Asian markets ended mostly higher.

The national average price of gasoline is up eight-tenths of a cent at $2.852 per gallon.

Earnings Reports.

Nike (NKE) reports earnings on 9/25/2018 after the market close.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

Cisco (CSCO)

Cisco (CSCO) is up +23.34% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

12:30 Core Retail Sales (MoM) (Aug), 0.5%, 0.6%

12:30 Export Price Index (MoM) (Aug), 0.1%, -0.5%

12:30 Import Price Index (MoM) (Aug), -0.2%, 0.0%

12:30 Retail Control (MoM) (Aug), 0.4%, 0.5%

12:30 Retail Sales (MoM) (Aug), 0.4%, 0.5%

12:30 Retail Sales Ex Gas/Autos (MoM) (Aug), 0.6%

13:00 Chicago Fed President Evans Speaks

13:15 Capacity Utilization Rate (Aug), 78.4%, 78.1%

13:15 Industrial Production (MoM) (Aug), 0.3%, 0.1%

13:15 Manufacturing Production (MoM) (Aug), 0.3%, 0.3%

14:00 Business Inventories (MoM) (Jul), 0.6%, 0.1%

14:00 Michigan 5-Year Inflation Expectations (Sep), 2.60%

14:00 Michigan Consumer Expectations (Sep), 87.1

14:00 Michigan Consumer Sentiment (Sep), 96.9 96.2

14:00 Michigan Current Conditions (Sep), 110.3

14:00 Michigan Inflation Expectations (Sep), 3.0%

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

14:30 ECRI Weekly Index, 148.2

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

19:30 CFTC Copper speculative net positions, -6.0K

19:30 CFTC Crude Oil speculative net positions, 565.7K

19:30 CFTC Gold speculative net positions, -13.5K

19:30 CFTC S&P 500 speculative net positions, 162.2K

19:30 CFTC Silver speculative net positions, -29.0K