There were no Dow stocks hitting 52-week highs include Amgen (AMGN) 404.85 (-0.73%). There were no Dow stocks hitting 52-week lows.

The Market

Premarket today, the Dow was indicated to be up +161 points.

Thursday the Dow closed down 464.02 (-0.85%) at 53,885.10.

Year-to-date the Dow is up +12.11%.

Thursday, (10) Dow stocks were up, none made 52-week lows, and (1) made 52-week highs.

The Dow stock winners Thursday were led by Disney (DIS) 104.68 (+2.87%), Microsoft (MSFT) 499.86 (+2.54%) and Chevron (CVX) 189.23 (+1.51%).

The Dow stock losers Thursday were led by Boeing (BA) 232.19 (-3.33%), Salesforce (CRM) 186.77 (-3.22%) and Honeywell 240.74 (-2.97%).

The VIX closed Thursday at 15.15 (-4.17%) and the 10 YR at 4.687 (+0.26%). The VIX is currently at 15.21 (+0.92%). The 10YR is at 4.643 (-0.68%).

July nonfarm payrolls contracted by 23,000 jobs, far below the 83,000-job addition that Wall Street had expected before the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report. The unemployment rate came in at 4.1% against economists’ estimate going into the number for an unchanged rate of 4.2%. The percentage of the population working or looking to work, the so-called labor force participation rate, dipped to 61.4% in July from 61.5% in June.

Markets are liking the poor Jobs report.

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

The national average price of gasoline is down 0.0211 at $4.0422 per gallon.

Earnings Reports

Nike (NKE) reported earnings on 6/30/26 after the market close with $0.72, beating estimates for $0.11 per share.

Goldman Sachs (GS) reported earnings on 7/14/26 before the market open with $20.98, beating estimates for $14.473 per share.

JPMorgan (JPM) reported earnings on 7/14/26 before the market open with $7.70, beating estimates for $5.591 per share.

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) reported earnings on 7/15/26 before the market open with $2.90, beating estimates for $2.85 per share.

UnitedHealth (UNH) reported earnings on 7/16/26 before the market open with $6.38, beating estimates for $4.874 per share.

Travelers (TRV) reported earnings on 7/17/26 before the market open with $10.04, beating estimates for $5.207 per share.

3M (MMM) reported earnings on 7/21/26 before the market open with $2.40, beating estimates for $2.271 per share.

Alphabet (GOOG) reported earnings on 7/22/26 after the market close with $9.11, beating estimates for $2.87 per share.

IBM (IBM) reported earnings on 7/22/26 after the market close with $2.93, beating estimates for $2.271 per share.

Honeywell (HON) reported earnings on 7/23/26 before the market open with $4.52, meeting estimates for $2.93 per share.

American Express (AXP) reported earnings on 7/24/26 before the market open with $4.53, beating estimates for $4.407 per share.

Boeing (BA) reported earnings on 7/28/26 before the market open with -$0.76, missing estimates for -$0.338 per share.

Coca Cola (KO) reported earnings on 7/28/26 before the market open with $0.97, beating estimates for $0.92 per share.

Sherwin (SHW) reported earnings on 7/28/26 before the market open with $3.70, beating estimates for $3.52 per share.

Visa (V) reported earnings on 7/28/26 after the market close with $3.226, beating estimates for $3.32 per share.

Procter & Gamble (PG) reported earnings on 7/29/26 before the market open with $1.43, beating estimates for $1.413 per share.

Microsoft (MSFT) reported earnings on 7/29/26 after the market close with $4.74, beating estimates for $4.209 per share.

Amazon (AMZN) reported earnings on 7/30/26 after the market close with $1.826, beating estimates for $5.75 per share.

Apple (AAPL) reported earnings on 7/30/26 after the market close with $2.02, beating estimates for $1.884 per share.

Chevron (CVX) reported earnings on 7/31/26 before the market open with $6.06, beating estimates for $5.804 per share.

Caterpillar (CAT) reported earnings on 8/4/26 before the market open with $8.17, beating estimates for $6.245 per share.

McDonald’s (MCD) reported earnings on 8/4/26 before the market open with $3.38, beating estimates for $3.32 per share.

Amgen (AMGN) reported earnings on 8/4/26 after the market close with $6.29, beating estimates for $5.599 per share.

Merck (MRK) reported earnings on 8/4/26 before the market open with -$0.13, beating estimates for -$0.263 per share.

Disney (DIS) reported earnings on 8/5/26 before the market open with $2.06, beating estimates for $1.879 per share.

Cisco (CSCO) reports earnings on 8/12/26 after the market close.

Home Depot (HD) reports earnings on 8/18/26 before the market open.

Walmart (WMT) reports earnings on 8/20/26 before the market open.

Nvidia (NVDA) reports earnings on 8/26/26 after the market close.

Today’s Featured Dow Stock

Honeywell (HON)

Honeywell (HON) 240.74 (-2.97%) is up +23.40% in 2026.

Financial Calendar

08:30 AM ET Average Hourly Earnings (YoY) (YoY) (Jul), 3.5%
08:30 AM ET Average Hourly Earnings (MoM) (Jul), 0.3%, 0.3%
08:30 AM ET Average Weekly Hours (Jul), 34.3
08:30 AM ET Government Payrolls (Jul), 8.0K
08:30 AM ET Manufacturing Payrolls (Jul), 3K
08:30 AM ET Nonfarm Payrolls (Jul), 88K, 57K
08:30 AM ET Participation Rate (Jul), 61.5%
08:30 AM ET Private Nonfarm Payrolls (Jul), 49K
08:30 AM ET U6 Unemployment Rate (Jul), 7.9%
08:30 AM ET Unemployment Rate (Jul), 4.2%, 4.2%
10:00 AM ET FOMC Member Barkin Speaks
11:00 AM ET NY Fed 1-Year Consumer Inflation Expectations (Jul), 3.7%
13:00 PM ET U.S. Baker Hughes Oil Rig Count, 451
13:00 PM ET U.S. Baker Hughes Total Rig Count, 588
15:00 PM ET Consumer Credit (Jun), 12.10B, -0.18B
15:30 PM ET CFTC Aluminium speculative net positions, -0.7K
15:30 PM ET CFTC Copper speculative net positions, 67.3K
15:30 PM ET CFTC Corn speculative net positions, 254.3K
15:30 PM ET CFTC Crude Oil speculative net positions, 120.1K
15:30 PM ET CFTC Gold speculative net positions, 182.1K
15:30 PM ET CFTC Nasdaq 100 speculative net positions, 4.9K
15:30 PM ET CFTC Natural Gas speculative net positions, -190.8K
15:30 PM ET CFTC S&P 500 speculative net positions, -17.2K
15:30 PM ET CFTC Silver speculative net positions, 22.2K
15:30 PM ET CFTC Soybeans speculative net positions, 211.8K
15:30 PM ET CFTC Wheat speculative net positions, -2.0K