Dow stocks hitting 52-week highs include IBM (IBM) 256.90 (-1.77%), McDonald’s (MCD) 317.25 (-1.26%) and Verizon (VZ) 46.49 (+0.93%). Dow stock 52-week lows include Microsoft (MSFT) 380.16 (-3.34%).

The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to be down -34 points.

Monday the Dow closed down 890.01 (-2.08%) at 41,911.71.

Year-to-date the Dow is down -1.49%.

Monday, (8) Dow stocks were up, (1) made 52-week lows, and (3) made 52-week highs.

The Dow stock winners Monday were led by Verizon (VZ) 46.49 (+0.93%), 3M (MMM) 47.62 (+0.90%) and Chevron (CVX) 157.57 (+0.79%).

The Dow stock losers Monday were led by Nvidia (NVDA) 106.98 (-5.07%), Goldman Sachs (GS) 531.66 (-5.00%) and Apple (AAPL) 227.48 (-4.85%).

The VIX closed Monday at 27.86 (+19.21%) and the 10 YR at 4.193 (-0.36%). The VIX is currently at 28.10 (+0.86%). The 10YR is at 4.239 (+0.74%).

Nothing much going on today with the Dow other than Trump wants you to lose money. He does want to save Tesla though.

Stock futures traded higher overnight, before giving up their gains on Tuesday morning. Shares of Nvidia (NVDA) were last trading in negative territory again, extending their 5% loss from Monday.

At 10 am ET we get the JOLTS report.

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

The national average price of gasoline is unchanged at $3.089 per gallon.

Earnings Reports

Nike (NKE) reports earnings on 3/20/25 after the market close.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

Walmart (WMT)

Walmart (WMT) 87.82 (-4.25%) is down -2.80% in 2025.

Financial Calendar

06:00 AM ET NFIB Small Business Optimism (Feb), 100.9, 102.8
08:55 AM ET Redbook (YoY), 6.6%
10:00 AM ET JOLTS Job Openings (Jan), 7.710M, 7.600M
12:00 PM ET EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook
12:00 PM ET WASDE Report
13:00 PM ET 3-Year Note Auction, 4.300%
16:30 PM ET API Weekly Crude Oil Stock, -1.455M