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 be down -181 point.

Wednesday the Dow closed down -76.85 (-0.22%) at 34,440.88.

Year-to-date the Dow is up +3.90%.

Wednesday, (9) Dow stocks were up, none were at 52-week lows and none were at 52-week highs.

The Dow stock winners Wednesday were led by Amgen (AMGN) 271.46 (+2.71%), UnitedHealth (UNH) 492.13 (+2.39%) and IBM (IBM) 149.83 (+2.26%).

The Dow stock losers Wednesday were led by Intel (INTC) 34.69 (-4.54%), Microsoft (MSFT) 320.77 (-2.40%) and Apple (AAPL) 175.49 (-2.00%).

The VIX closed Wednesday at 15.14 (+7.30%) and the 10 YR at 4.427 (+1.93%). The VIX is currently at 16.32 (+7.79%). The 10YR is at 4.465 (+2.81%).

Weekly jobless claims decreased by 20,000 to 201,000 for the week ending Sept. 16, much lower than the 225,000 claims expected by economists. It was the lowest volume of new unemployment claims since January. Continuing claims totaled 1.662 million, a drop of 21,000 and below the estimate for 1.692 million.

The 10-year Treasury yield hit 4.48%, its highest in more than 15 years.

Cisco (CSCO) fell 5% in premarket trading Thursday after the IT company announced it will acquire Splunk , a cybersecurity company, for $157 per share.

U.S. futures are lower, European stocks are lower and Asian markets ended lower.

The national average price of gasoline is down eight-tenths of a cent at $3.867 per gallon.

Earnings Reports

Nike (NKE) reports earnings on 9/28/23 after the market close.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

Walgreens (WBA)

Walgreens (WBA) 21.84 (-0.86%) is down -41.54% in 2023.

Financial Calendar

08:30 AM ET Continuing Jobless Claims, 1,695K, 1,688K
08:30 AM ET Current Account (Q2), -221.0B, -219.3B
08:30 AM ET Initial Jobless Claims, 225K, 220K
08:30 AM ET Jobless Claims 4-Week Avg., 224.50K
08:30 AM ET Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index (Sep), -0.7, 12.0
08:30 AM ET Philly Fed Business Conditions (Sep), 3.9
08:30 AM ET Philly Fed CAPEX Index (Sep), -4.50
08:30 AM ET Philly Fed Employment (Sep), -6.0
08:30 AM ET Philly Fed New Orders (Sep), 16.0
08:30 AM ET Philly Fed Prices Paid (Sep), 20.80
10:00 AM ET Existing Home Sales (MoM) (Aug), -2.2%
10:00 AM ET Existing Home Sales (Aug), 4.10M, 4.07M
10:00 AM ET US Leading Index (MoM) (Aug), -0.5%, -0.4%
10:30 AM ET Natural Gas Storage, 67B, 57B
11:30 AM ET 4-Week Bill Auction, 5.285%
11:30 AM ET 8-Week Bill Auction, 5.295%
13:00 PM ET 10-Year TIPS Auction, 1.495%
16:30 PM ET Fed’s Balance Sheet, 8,099B
16:30 PM ET Reserve Balances with Federal Reserve Banks, 3.310T