Dow flat despite loss in shares of IBM, Dow Inc.

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The Dow Jones industrial average is almost flat Wednesday afternoon with shares of IBM and Dow Inc. sees the biggest losses for the blue-chip average. Shares of IBM IBM,
-1.85%
and Dow Inc. DOW,
-1.88%
puts -8% of the blue-rod interweaving loss, as the Dow DJIA,
+ 0.09%
it was recently trading 3 points (0.0%) lower. IBM shares are down $ 2.73 (2.1%) while Dow Inc. shares off $ 1.25, or 2.0%, coming together to pull around 26 points on the Dow. Contributing significantly to the decline is Nike NKE,
-1.54%,
Cisco CSCO,
-0.87%,
and Merck MRK,
-0.70%.
A $ 1 move in any of Dow’s 30 parts will result in a 6.58-point swing.

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