Dow Movers: MRK, CVX

Dow Movers: MRK, CVX

In early trading on Thursday, shares of Chevron topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 1.0%.

Year to date, Chevron registers a 21.0% gain.

In early trading on Thursday, shares of Chevron topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 1.0%.

Year to date, Chevron registers a 21.0% gain.

And the worst performing Dow component thus far on the day is Merck, trading down 0.8%.

Merck is lower by about 0.4% looking at the year to date performance.

Two other components making moves today are Caterpillar, trading down 0.6%, and Intel, trading up 0.9% on the day.