Dow Movers: XOM, MRK
updated Friday, July 29, 10:12 AMIn early trading on Friday, shares of Merck & Co. (MRK) topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 1.0%. Year to date, Merck & Co. registers a 11.7% gain.
And the worst performing Dow component thus far on the day is Exxon Mobil (XOM), trading down 2.2%. Exxon Mobil is showing a gain of 13.1% looking at the year to date performance.
Two other components making moves today are Chevron (CVX), trading down 1.3%, and Microsoft (MSFT), trading up 0.7% on the day.
For MarketNewsVideo.com, I'm Sayoko Murase.