In early trading on Monday, shares of Merck topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 2.1%. Year to date, Merck has lost about 10.0% of its value.
And the worst performing Dow component thus far on the day is UnitedHealth Group, trading down 7.2%. UnitedHealth Group Inc is lower by about 7.8% looking at the year to date performance.
Two other components making moves today are NVIDIA, trading down 4.1%, and Coca-Cola, trading up 1.9% on the day.
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