There were no Dow stocks hitting 52-week highs. Dow stock 52-week lows include Microsoft (MSFT) 380.45 (+0.08%).

The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to be up +212 points.

Tuesday the Dow closed down -478.23 (-1.14%) at 41,433.48.

Year-to-date the Dow is down -2.61%.

Tuesday, (6) Dow stocks were up, (1) made 52-week lows, and none made 52-week highs.

The Dow stock winners Tuesday were led by Boeing (BA) 154.06 (+3.99%), Nvidia (NVDA) 108.76 (+1.66%) and Salesforce (CRM) 277.05 (+1.52%).

The Dow stock losers Tuesday were led by Verizon (VZ) 43.43 (-6.58%), Disney (DIS) 97.90 (-5.03%) and McDonald’s (MCD) 306.76 (-3.31%).

The VIX closed Tuesday at 26.92 (-3.37%) and the 10 YR at 4.282 (-0.19%). The VIX is currently at 25.61 (-4.87%). The 10YR is at 4.325 (+0.82%).

The consumer price index, a broad measure of costs across the U.S. economy, increased 0.2% for the month, putting the annual inflation rate at 2.8%. This was lower than the respective estimates for 0.3% and 2.9%. Core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose 0.2% on the month and 3.1% for the past 12 months, both below expectations.

Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs took effect today and the European Union responded swiftly, pledging to impose counter-tariffs on 26 billion euros ($28.33 billion) worth of U.S. imports beginning in April.

Intel (INTC) shares jumped 8% after it was reported that TSMC has raised a joint venture proposal to U.S. chipmakers Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom to operate Intel’s foundry division.

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

Apple (AAPL)

Apple (AAPL) 220.84 (-2.92%) is down -11.81% in 2025.

Financial Calendar

07:00 AM ET MBA 30-Year Mortgage Rate, 6.73%
07:00 AM ET MBA Mortgage Applications (WoW), 20.4%
07:00 AM ET MBA Purchase Index, 144.5
07:00 AM ET Mortgage Market Index, 242.2
07:00 AM ET Mortgage Refinance Index, 784.2
07:00 AM ET OPEC Monthly Report
08:30 AM ET Core CPI (MoM) (Feb), 0.3%, 0.4%
08:30 AM ET Core CPI (YoY) (Feb), 3.2%, 3.3%
08:30 AM ET Core CPI Index (Feb), 324.74
08:30 AM ET CPI (YoY) (Feb), 2.9%, 3.0%
08:30 AM ET CPI (MoM) (Feb), 0.3%, 0.5%
08:30 AM ET CPI Index, n.s.a. (Feb), 319.22, 317.67
08:30 AM ET CPI Index, s.a (Feb), 319.09
08:30 AM ET CPI, n.s.a (MoM) (Feb), 0.65%
08:30 AM ET Real Earnings (MoM) (Feb), -0.3%
09:30 AM ET Crude Oil Inventories, 2.100M, 3.614M
09:30 AM ET EIA Refinery Crude Runs (WoW), -0.346M
09:30 AM ET Crude Oil Imports, -0.054M
09:30 AM ET Cushing Crude Oil Inventories, 1.124M
09:30 AM ET Distillate Fuel Production, -0.587M
09:30 AM ET EIA Weekly Distillates Stocks, -1.400M, -1.318M
09:30 AM ET Gasoline Production, 0.464M
09:30 AM ET Heating Oil Stockpiles, -0.067M
09:30 AM ET EIA Weekly Refinery Utilization Rates (WoW), -0.6%
09:30 AM ET Gasoline Inventories, -2.500M, -1.433M
11:00 AM ET Cleveland CPI (MoM) (Feb), 0.3%
11:00 AM ET Thomson Reuters IPSOS PCSI (Mar), 55.34
13:00 PM ET 10-Year Note Auction, 4.632%
14:00 PM ET Federal Budget Balance (Feb), -302.5B, -129.0B