Dow Movers: CVX, MRK
updated Tuesday, August 12, 12:16 PMIn early trading on Tuesday, shares of Merck & Co. (MRK) topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 0.5%. Year to date, Merck & Co. registers a 13.8% gain.
And the worst performing Dow component thus far on the day is Chevron (CVX), trading down 0.8%. Chevron is showing a gain of 1.4% looking at the year to date performance.
Two other components making moves today are Wal-Mart Stores (WMT), trading down 0.3%, and Coca-Cola (KO), trading up 0.5% on the day.
For MarketNewsVideo.com, I'm Sayoko Murase.