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

The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open up +57 points.

Thursday the Dow was up +251.22 (+0.95%) at 26,656.98.

Year-to-date the Dow is up +7.84%.

There were 28 Dow stocks up Thursday.

The Dow stock winners Thursday were led by Intel (INTC) +2.28% and Walgreens (WBA) +2.26%.

The Dow stock losers Thursday were led by Home Depot (HD) -0.29% and Chevron (CVX) -0.08%.

Nike (NKE) the athletic apparel company is the best-performing stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average this year, up +36.48%.

European stocks are higher and Asian markets ended higher.

The national average price of gasoline is up seven-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

Goldman Sachs (GS)

Goldman Sachs (GS) is down -6.81% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

13:45 Manufacturing PMI (Sep), 55.0, 54.7

13:45 Markit Composite PMI, 54.7

13:45 Services PMI (Sep), 55.0, 54.8

14:30 ECRI Weekly Annualized (WoW)

14:30 ECRI Weekly Index, 148.0

17:00 U.S. Baker Hughes Oil Rig Count, 867

19:30 CFTC Copper speculative net positions, -8.9K

19:30 CFTC Crude Oil speculative net positions, 543.8K

19:30 CFTC Gold speculative net positions, -7.6K

19:30 CFTC S&P 500 speculative net positions, 122.2K

19:30 CFTC Silver speculative net positions, -27.4K