the dow jones industrial average is flat thursday morning with shares of amgen inc and merck seeing the biggest declines for the index the dow djia is trading at 35023 8 points lower amgen incs shares have declined 367 or 17 while those of merck are off 095 13 combining for an approximately 30point drag on the dow a 1 move in any one of the 30 components of the benchmark 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