The Dow Jones Industrial Average is flat Monday afternoon with shares of Walgreens Boots and Merck seeing positive gains for the index. The Dow DJIA, -0.32% was most recently trading at 29,309, 12 points higher.
Walgreens Boots’s shares are up $1.54, or 5.0%, while those of Merck have climbed $3.10, or 3.5%, combining for a roughly 31-point boost for the Dow. A $1 move in any one of the 30 components of the Dow equates to a 6.59-point swing.