led by strong returns for shares of dow and salesforce the dow jones industrial average is up wednesday afternoon the dow djia was most recently trading 139 points 04 higher as shares of dow dow and salesforce crm have contributed to the bluechip gauges intraday rally dows shares are up 110 or 20 while those of salesforce have risen 217 or 12 combining for an approximately 22point bump for the dow other components contributing significantly to the gain include microsoft msft  goldman sachs gs  and honeywell hon  a 1 move in any of the dows 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