Shares of Walgreens Boots and Chevron are trading lower Thursday afternoon, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average into negative territory. Shares of Walgreens Boots WBA, -3.39% and Chevron CVX, -2.52% are contributing to the blue-chip gauge’s intraday decline, as the Dow DJIA, -0.44% was most recently trading 93 points lower (-0.3%). Walgreens Boots’s shares are off $1.57 (3.0%) while those of Chevron have dropped $1.89, or 2.0%, combining for an approximately 23-point drag on the Dow. 3M MMM, -1.52%, Goldman Sachs GS, -1.55%, and IBM IBM, -1.25% are also contributing significantly to the decline. A $1 move in any one of the 30 components of the index equates to a 6.58-point swing.
Dow's nearly 100-point drop led by losses for Walgreens Boots, Chevron stocks
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