Nasdaq down --0.56%

With about 15 minutes to go in the day, the Dow clishks to a 9 point gain. The S&P is down -0.22% and holding just above the 3000 level. The Nasdaq is the worst performer and trading down -0.56%.

Looking ahead to earnings, tomorrow is a a key day with Boeing, Caterpillar, Microsoft some of the leading names scheduled to release. On Thursday Amazon and Intel will also release their earnings.

Below is a list of some of the top names scheduled:

Wednesday, October 23

  • Boeing, BA
  • Blackstone group, BX
  • General Dynamics, GD
  • Owens Corning, OC
  • Ford, F
  • Caterpillar, CAT
  • Celgene, CELG
  • Microsoft, MSFT
  • eBay, EBAY
  • PayPal holdings, PYPL
  • Tesla, TSLA

Thursday, October 24

  • 3M, MMM
  • Amazon, AMZN
  • American Airlines, AAL
  • Southwest Air, LUV
  • Intel, INTC
  • Gilead sciences, GILD
  • T mobile, TMUS
  • Twitter, TWTR
  • Visa, V

Microsoft is down 1.4% in trading today ahead of its earnings.