powered by strong returns for shares of merck and johnson  johnson the dow jones industrial average is trading up monday afternoon the dow djia is trading 190 points 06 higher as shares of merck mrk and johnson  johnson jnj are contributing to the indexs intraday rally mercks shares have climbed 368 38 while those of johnson  johnson have gained 381 23 combining for an approximately 49point bump for the dow also contributing significantly to the gain are ibm ibm  travelers trv  and visa v  a 1 move in any of the benchmarks 30 components results in 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