In early trading on Thursday, shares of Caterpillar topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 6.8%. Year to date, Caterpillar registers a 51.1% gain.
And the worst performing Dow component thus far on the day is Microsoft, trading down 3.6%. Microsoft is lower by about 15.4% looking at the year to date performance.
Two other components making moves today are Salesforce, trading down 2.3%, and Walmart, trading up 1.9% on the day.
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