UnitedHealth, share losses from Microsoft contribute to the Dow drop of nearly 75 points

Shares of UnitedHealth and Microsoft are trading lower on Thursday morning, dragging the Dow Jones Industrial Average into negative territory. The Dow

DJIA, + 0.27%

was recently down 74 points (-0.3%), shares of UnitedHealth

A H, -2.62%

and Microsoft

MSFT, -0.88%

contributed to the intraday decline of the blue chip gauge. Shares of UnitedHealth fell by $ 4.97, or 2.1%, while those of Microsoft had a reduction of $ 2.19, or 1.6%, a reduction of about 49 points in the Dow. . Cisco has also contributed to this decline significantly.

CSCO, -1.17%,

McDonalds

MCD -0.77%,

and Visa

V -0.36%.

A movement of $ 1 in one of the 30 components of the index equals a change of 6.78 points.

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