the dow jones industrial average is declining wednesday morning with shares of microsoft and home depot delivering the stiffest headwinds for the index the dow djia was most recently trading 245 points 07 lower as shares of microsoft msft and home depot hd have contributed to the indexs intraday decline microsofts shares have dropped 527 or 18 while those of home depot have dropped 618 18 combining for a roughly 75point drag on the dow salesforcecom inc crm  3m mmm  and goldman sachs gs are also contributing significantly to the decline a 1 move in any one of the 30 components of the dow 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