the dow jones industrial average is declining tuesday afternoon with shares of caterpillar and travelers seeing the biggest declines for the priceweighted average the dow djia was most recently trading 287 points lower 09 as shares of caterpillar cat and travelers trv have contributed to the bluechip gauges intraday decline caterpillars shares have declined 1245 or 54 while those of travelers are down 417 24 combining for a roughly 110point drag on the dow other components contributing significantly to the decline include dow dow  3m mmm  and goldman sachs gs  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