In early trading on Wednesday, shares of Amgen topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 4.5%. Year to date, Amgen registers a 15.9% gain.
And the worst performing Dow component thus far on the day is Merck, trading down 2.5%. Merck is lower by about 11.0% looking at the year to date performance.
Two other components making moves today are Amazon.com, trading down 2.3%, and NVIDIA, trading up 2.2% on the day.
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