the dow jones industrial average is climbing thursday morning with shares of dow inc and apple inc leading the way for the bluechip average shares of dow inc dow and apple inc aapl are contributing to the indexs intraday rally as the dow djia is trading 155 points or 04 higher dow incs shares have climbed 329 or 49 while those of apple inc have risen 337 20 combining for an approximately 44point bump for the dow also contributing significantly to the gain are ibm ibm verizon communications inc vz and cocacola ko a 1 move in any one of the 30 components of the dow 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