dragged down by negative returns for shares of caterpillar and verizon communications inc the dow jones industrial average is falling wednesday afternoon shares of caterpillar cat and verizon communications inc vz have contributed to the bluechip gauges intraday decline as the dow djia was most recently trading 59 points 02 lower caterpillars shares have fallen 317 or 18 while those of verizon communications inc are down 069 or 17 combining for a roughly 25point drag on the dow american express axp  walt disney dis  and jpmorgan chase jpm are also contributing significantly to the decline a 1 move in any of the dows 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