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The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open down -67 points.

Thursday the Dow was down -200.91 (-0.75%) at 26,627.48.

Year-to-date the Dow is up +7.72%.

There were 6 Dow stocks up Thursday.

The Dow stock winners Thursday were led by Verizon (VZ) +1.34% and Travelers (TRV) +0.96%.

The Dow stock losers Thursday were led by Nike (NKE) -2.81% and Home Depot (HD) -2.40%.

The September Jobs Report said 134,000 jobs were added last month. Wall Street economists had expected an increase of about 168,000. The unemployment rate was 3.7 percent, the lowest since 1969. Average earnings rose by 8 cents an hour and are up 2.8 percent over the past year. Hiring figures for July and August were revised up by a combined 87,000 jobs.

European stocks are lower and Asian markets ended mostly lower.

The national average price of gasoline is up three-tenths of a cent at $2.914 per gallon.

Earnings Reports.

Nike (NKE) reported earnings on 9/25/2018 after the market close of $0.67, just beating estimates calling for $0.657 per share.

Walgreens (WBA) reports earnings on 10/11/18 before the market open.

JPMorgan (JPM) reports earnings on 10/12/18 before the market open.

Goldman Sachs (GS) reports earnings on 10/16/18 before the market open.

IBM (IBM) reports earnings on 10/16/18 after the market close.

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) reports earnings on 10/16/18 before the market open.

UnitedHealth (UNH) reports earnings on 10/16/18 before the market open.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

Microsoft (MSFT)

Microsoft (MSFT) is up +31.86% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

12:30 Average Hourly Earnings (YoY) (YoY) (Sep), 2.8%, 2.9%

12:30 Average Hourly Earnings (MoM) (Sep), 0.3%, 0.4%

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

12:30 Exports, 211.08B

12:30 Government Payrolls (Sep), -3.0K

12:30 Imports, 261.20B

12:30 Manufacturing Payrolls (Sep), 12K, -3K

12:30 Nonfarm Payrolls (Sep), 185K, 201K

12:30 Participation Rate (Sep), 62.7%

12:30 Private Nonfarm Payrolls (Sep), 180K, 204K

12:30 Trade Balance (Aug), -53.40B, -50.10B

12:30 U6 Unemployment Rate (Sep), 7.4%

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

14:30 ECRI Weekly Annualized (WoW), 0.4%

14:30 ECRI Weekly Index, 148.5

16:40 FOMC Member Bostic Speaks

17:00 U.S. Baker Hughes Oil Rig Count, 863

19:00 Consumer Credit (Aug), 14.90B, 16.64B

19:30 CFTC Copper speculative net positions, 11.1K

19:30 CFTC Crude Oil speculative net positions, 560.1K

19:30 CFTC Gold speculative net positions, -17.6K

19:30 CFTC S&P 500 speculative net positions, 197.9K

19:30 CFTC Silver speculative net positions, -23.3K