Investors are cheering bad news today, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Around the Dow
Moving to individual stocks, below are the three top-performing Dow components on the day as of about 3:30 p.m. EDT.
Company |
Gain/Loss |
Gain/Loss % |
Price |
---|---|---|---|
Home Depot |
1.24 | 2.4% | 52.21 |
Disney |
0.80 | 1.7% | 47.03 |
Cisco Systems |
0.22 | 1.3% | 16.88 |
Source: Yahoo! Finance.
While there doesn't appear to be any specific company news impacting shares, Disney and Home Depot continue their respective outperformance versus the Dow, with both company's shares up around 25% year to date versus a 4% gain for the broader index. Shares of Cisco Systems have treaded water since it provided disappointing guidance with its last earnings report, and are down nearly 16% over the past three months.
Economic data is also moving exchange-traded fund United States Natural Gas
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