the dow jones industrial average is trading up thursday morning with shares of unitedhealth and caterpillar seeing positive momentum for the bluechip average shares of unitedhealth unh and caterpillar cat are contributing to the indexs intraday rally as the dow djia was most recently trading 140 points 04 higher unitedhealths shares have gained 561 13 while those of caterpillar have climbed 255 or 12 combining for a roughly 54point boost for the dow other components contributing significantly to the gain include apple inc aapl  chevron cvx  and walgreens boots wba  a 1 move in any of the benchmarks 30 components equates to a 658point 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