Dow’s nearly 150-point fall led by losses for shares of Walgreens Boots, Intel

Dragged down by declines for shares of Walgreens Boots and Intel, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is falling Wednesday afternoon. The Dow
DJIA,
+0.16%
was most recently trading 142 points, or 0.4%, lower, as shares of Walgreens Boots
WBA,
+0.74%
and Intel
INTC,
+0.02%
have contributed to the index’s intraday decline. Walgreens Boots’s shares are off $0.73 (3.3%) while those of Intel have fallen $1.42, or 3.2%, combining for a roughly 14-point drag on the Dow. Also contributing significantly to the decline are Salesforce
CRM,
-0.29%,
IBM
IBM,
+0.82%,
and Walt Disney
DIS,
+0.09%.
A $1 move in any of the benchmark’s 30 components equates to a 6.59-point swing.


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