In early trading on Thursday, shares of Occidental Petroleum topped the list of the day's best performing components of the S&P 500 index, trading up 8.1%. Year to date, Occidental Petroleum registers a 39.4% gain.
And the worst performing S&P 500 component thus far on the day is Viatris, trading down 4.5%. Viatris is lower by about 6.2% looking at the year to date performance.
Two other components making moves today are Blackrock, trading down 2.7%, and Apache, trading up 8.0% on the day.
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