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In early trading on Wednesday, shares of Caterpillar topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 2.1%. Year to date, Caterpillar registers a 28.7% gain.
And the worst performing Dow component thus far on the day is Sherwin-Williams, trading down 1.3%. Sherwin-Williams is showing a gain of 6.3% looking at the year to date performance.
Two other components making moves today are Home Depot, trading down 1.2%, and Amazon.com, trading up 1.0% on the day.
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