shares of american express and visa are trading higher friday afternoon propelling the dow jones industrial average into positive territory shares of american express axp and visa v have contributed about half of the indexs intraday rally as the dow djia is trading 147 points or 04 higher american expresss shares have gained 1807 116 while those of visa have risen 664 or 30 combining for an approximately 163point bump for the dow walgreens boots wba  apple aapl  and 3m mmm are also contributing significantly to the gain a 1 move in any of the benchmarks 30 components equates to a 659point swing editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use