In early trading on Monday, shares of Merck topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 0.7%. Year to date, Merck has lost about 2.5% of its value.
And the worst performing Dow component thus far on the day is Goldman Sachs Group, trading down 1.6%. Goldman Sachs Group is lower by about 2.4% looking at the year to date performance.
Two other components making moves today are Intel, trading down 1.1%, and Johnson & Johnson, trading up 0.7% on the day.
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