There are no Dow stocks hitting 52 week highs. There are no Dow stock 52 week lows.
The Market
Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to open down -113 points.
Thursday the Dow was up +52.31 (+0.20%) at 26,815.44.
Year-to-date the Dow is down -6.04%.
There were 17 Dow stocks up Thursday.
The Dow stock winners Thursday were led by Goldman Sachs (GS) 195.11 (+4.83%), Microsoft (MSFT) 203.19 (+1.30%) and Apple (AAPL) 108.22 (+1.03%).
The Dow stock losers Thursday were led by Boeing (BA) 146.05 (-3.39%), Nike (NKE) 124.75 (-1.86%) and Cisco (CSCO) 37.85 (-1.12%).
House Democrats are preparing a new, smaller coronavirus relief package expected to cost about $2.4 trillion, a person familiar with the plans said. The bill would include a federal unemployment benefits boost, direct payments to Americans, small-business loan funding and aid to airlines.
Total U.S. coronavirus cases neared 7 million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University on Friday morning. Deaths in the U.S. from Covid-19 exceeded 200,000 earlier this week as global fatalities approached 1 million on almost 32.3 million infections.
European stocks are lower and Asian markets ended mostly lower.
The national average price of gasoline is down three-tenths of a cent at $2.193 per gallon.
Earnings Reports
Nike (NKE) 116.87 (+3.09%) reported earnings on 9/22/2020 after the market close of $0.95, beating estimates calling for $0.458 per share. Last I checked it was trading at 132.15 in after-hours. [Closed at $114.90, +1.93% on 9/9/2020]
Today’s Featured Dow Stock
Apple (AAPL) 108.22 (+1.03%) is up +47.42% year-to-date. Apple (AAPL) YTD low was 53.15 on 3/23/2020. Apple has provided a +103.61% gain off the YTD low.
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