the dow jones industrial average is declining friday afternoon with shares of 3m and dow inc delivering the stiffest headwinds for the priceweighted average the dow djia was most recently trading 155 points lower 05 as shares of 3m mmm and dow inc dow have contributed to the bluechip gauges intraday decline 3ms shares are off 300 or 24 while those of dow inc have declined 068 or 14 combining for a roughly 24point drag on the dow other components contributing significantly to the decline include intel intc  procter  gamble pg  and ibm ibm  a 1 move in any of the indexs 30 components 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