behind negative returns for shares of american express and verizon the dow jones industrial average is down thursday morning shares of american express axp and verizon vz are contributing to the bluechip gauges intraday decline as the dow djia was most recently trading 149 points 04 lower american expresss shares are down 722 44 while those of verizon are off 123 or 32 combining for an approximately 56point drag on the dow other components contributing significantly to the decline include cisco csco  dow dow  and chevron cvx  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