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Dow Jones News Today: Stocks Drop as Amazon Disrupts Home Improvement

The Dow Jones news today will focus on the conclusion to a busy week of earnings reports and Amazon's entry into the home improvement market.

Key reports from Honeywell International (NYSE: HON) and General Electric (NYSE: GE) will drive early performance in today's morning trading session.

Here's a look at today's most important market events and stocks, plus a look at today's economic calendar...

World Stock Markets Flat In Quiet, Summertime Trading

Global equity markets were steady to narrowly mixed overnight, in quieter dealings amid a lack of fresh, major fundamental news to drive the markets.A lazy, hazy summertime trading atmosphere has enveloped U.S. and European stock markets. U.S. stock indexes are pointed toward slightly lower openings when the New York day session begins.

Gold prices are firmer and hit a three-week high overnight. Prices are in a two-week-old uptrend and bulls have momentum.

It appears the "take away" from this week's news events and markets' price action is growing notions the major central banks of the world are not in a big hurry at all to tighten their monetary policies

Here Are Your Two Best North Korean Crisis Plays

Last week, we showed you one possible way our current standoff with North Korea might end.

To me, it's been clear since the outset what the North Koreans' own endgame was here. And it was clear that Pyongyang's weapons program was developing faster than the "experts" realized – or faster than the Pentagon was willing to publicly admit.

The truth is, the failed policies of the West, and of the United States in particular, have brought us squarely to where we are today: "Between the Devil and the deep, blue sea," as the old chestnut goes.

Today, I'm going to show you six options the Trump administration has for bringing this to resolution.

None of them are great, and some are downright nightmarish.

There are, however, a couple of really great opportunities for savvy investors who follow this story and know the places to cash in.

Here they are...