the dow jones industrial average is climbing thursday afternoon with shares of apple and walt disney leading the way for the bluechip average the dow djia is trading 326 points 10 higher as shares of apple aapl and walt disney dis are contributing to the indexs intraday rally apples shares have risen 479 or 30 while those of walt disney have gained 286 or 29 combining for a roughly 50point boost for the dow other components contributing significantly to the gain include nike nke  salesforce crm  and microsoft msft  a 1 move in any one of the 30 components of the index 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