the dow jones industrial average is climbing wednesday morning with shares of salesforce inc and apple inc delivering strong returns for the index the dow djia is trading 304 points higher 09 as shares of salesforce inc crm and apple inc aapl are contributing around a quarter of the bluechip gauges intraday rally salesforce incs shares are up 637 or 35 while those of apple inc have gained 478 or 30 combining for a roughly 73point boost for the dow other components contributing significantly to the gain include walt disney dis  american express axp  and amgen inc amgn  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