The Dow Market Happenings For Friday, October 12, 2018

There are no Dow stocks at 52 week highs. Dow stock 52 week lows include Goldman Sachs (GS).

The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open up +236 points.

Thursday the Dow was down -545.91 (-2.13%) at 25,052.83.

Year-to-date the Dow is up +1.35%.

There were no Dow stocks up Thursday.

The Dow stock winners Thursday were not to be found.

The Dow stock losers Thursday were led by Pfizer (PFE) -3.82%, Exxon Mobil (XOM) -3.45%, Chevron (CVX) -3.40%, Cisco (CSCO) -3.31%, McDonald’s (MCD) -3.21% and Procter & Gamble (PG) -3.16%.

JPMorgan Chase (JPM -3.00%) is up 1% in premarket trading after it reported Q3 adjusted EPS of $2.36, higher than consensus of $2.26.

European stocks are higher and Asian markets ended higher.

The national average price of gasoline is down three-tenths of a cent at $2.907 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) reported earnings on 10/11/18 before the market open of $1.48, barely beating estimates of $1.471 per share.

JPMorgan (JPM) reported earnings on 10/12/18 before the market open of $2.36, beating estimates calling for $2.26 per share.

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.

Travelers (TRV) reports earnings on 10/19/18 before the market open.

American Express (AXP) reports earnings on 10/18/18 after the market close.

McDonald’s (MCD) reports earnings on 10/23/2018 before the market open.

3M (MMM) reports earnings on 10/23/2018 before the market open.

United Technologies (UTX) reports earnings on 10/23/2018 before the market open.

Verizon (VZ) reports earnings on 10/23/2018 before the market open.

Boeing (BA) reports earnings on 10/24/2018 before the market open.

Visa (V) reports earnings on 10/24/2018 after the market close.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

United Technologies (UTX)

United Technologies (UTX) is up +1.41% year-to-date.

Financial Calendar

Tentative IEA Monthly Report

12:30 Export Price Index (YoY), 3.5%, 3.6%

12:30 Export Price Index (MoM) (Sep) , 0.2%, -0.1%

12:30 Import Price Index (YoY), 3.2%, 3.7%

12:30 Import Price Index (MoM) (Sep), 0.2%, -0.6%

13:30 Chicago Fed President Evans Speaks

14:00 Michigan 5-Year Inflation Expectations (Oct), 2.50%

14:00 Michigan Consumer Expectations (Oct), 90.0, 90.5

14:00 Michigan Consumer Sentiment (Oct), 100.4, 100.1

14:00 Michigan Current Conditions (Oct), 115.8, 115.2

14:00 Michigan Inflation Expectations (Oct), 2.7%

14:30 ECRI Weekly Annualized (WoW), 0.5%

14:30 ECRI Weekly Index, 149.1

16:30 FOMC Member Bostic Speaks

17:00 U.S. Baker Hughes Oil Rig Count, 861

19:30 CFTC Copper speculative net positions, 12.0K

19:30 CFTC Crude Oil speculative net positions, 548.9K

19:30 CFTC Gold speculative net positions, -21.8K

19:30 CFTC S&P 500 speculative net positions, 228.0K

19:30 CFTC Silver speculative net positions, -17.5K

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