the dow jones industrial average is climbing monday afternoon with shares of chevron and merck delivering strong returns for the bluechip average the dow djia is trading 159 points or 05 higher as shares of chevron cvx and merck mrk have contributed to the indexs intraday rally chevrons shares are up 641 or 38 while those of merck are up 221 24 combining for an approximately 57point boost for the dow other components contributing significantly to the gain include walgreens boots wba  verizon communications inc vz  and ibm ibm  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