The Dow Jones Industrial Average is relatively flat Wednesday afternoon with shares of Home Depot and Dow facing the biggest drops for the index. Shares of Home Depot HD, -3.36% and Dow DOW, -2.70% have contributed -18% of the blue-chip gauge’s intraday movement, as the Dow DJIA, -0.33% was most recently trading 19 points lower (-0.1%).
Home Depot’s shares are off $7.57, or 2.7%, while those of Dow have fallen $0.72 (1.5%), combining for an approximately 55-point drag on the Dow. A $1 move in any one of the 30 components of the Dow results in a 6.59-point swing.