the dow jones industrial average is climbing thursday afternoon with shares of boeing and nike leading the way for the bluechip average shares of boeing ba and nike nke are contributing to the bluechip gauges intraday rally as the dow djia was most recently trading 257 points 08 higher boeings shares have gained 447 or 25 while those of nike are up 234 or 22 combining for a roughly 45point boost for the dow cisco csco  microsoft msft  and apple aapl are also contributing significantly to the gain a 1 move in any one of the 30 components of the dow 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