By MarketWatch Automation
Shares of Salesforce.com Inc. and Dow Inc. are trading lower Friday afternoon, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average into negative territory. Shares of Salesforce.com Inc. /zigman2/quotes/200515854/composite CRM -0.47% and Dow Inc. /zigman2/quotes/203121064/composite DOW +0.17% are contributing to the index's intraday decline, as the Dow /zigman2/quotes/210598065/realtime DJIA +0.48% was most recently trading 213 points, or 0.7%, lower. Salesforce.com Inc.'s shares are down $10.51 (4.5%) while those of Dow Inc. are off $1.42 (2.3%), combining for a roughly 78-point drag on the Dow. Other components contributing significantly to the decline include Merck /zigman2/quotes/209956077/composite MRK +1.06% , Procter & Gamble /zigman2/quotes/202894679/composite PG +0.0073% , and IBM /zigman2/quotes/203856914/composite IBM +0.76% . A $1 move in any of the Dow's 30 components results in a 6.58-point swing.
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