Dow Movers: MRK, CVX
updated Tuesday, February 6, 10:11 AMIn early trading on Tuesday, shares of Chevron (CVX) topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 1.6%. Year to date, Chevron has lost about 8.6% of its value.
And the worst performing Dow component thus far on the day is Merck (MRK), trading down 2.0%. Merck is lower by about 1.8% looking at the year to date performance.
Two other components making moves today are Travelers Companies (TRV), trading down 1.4%, and Apple (AAPL), trading up 1.4% on the day.
For MarketNewsVideo.com, I'm Sayoko Murase.