In early trading on Wednesday, shares of Qualcomm (QCOM) topped the list of the day's best performing components of the S&P 500 index, trading up 14.4%. Year to date, Qualcomm registers a 41.6% gain.
And the worst performing S&P 500 component thus far on the day is Bank of New York Mellon Corp (BK), trading down 8.4%. Bank of New York Mellon Corp is showing a gain of 4.0% looking at the year to date performance.
Two other components making moves today are International Business Machines (IBM), trading down 5.4%, and Textron (TXT), trading up 8.8% on the day.
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