In early trading on Tuesday, shares of McDonald's topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 0.8%. Year to date, McDonald's has lost about 5.7% of its value.
And the worst performing Dow component thus far on the day is Microsoft, trading down 2.1%. Microsoft is showing a gain of 28.5% looking at the year to date performance.
Two other components making moves today are Intel, trading down 2.0%, and Merck, trading up 0.7% on the day.
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