Home Depot, Boeing lead Dow higher
All but one of the 30 Dow stocks are now in positive territory as the market average is up 600 points on the day.
Home Depot is the best performer in the Dow, up more than 5%. Construction stocks could be a beneficiary of national disasters, like the hurricane that hit Florida on Wednesday.
Other top performers include Boeing, up 4.8%, and Disney, up 3.8%.
The lone decliner is Apple, down 1.3%.
—Jesse Pound
Stocks making the biggest moves midday
These companies are making headlines in midday trading.
- Apple — Apple shares fell 3.4% on Wednesday following a report that the company is ditching plans to boost new iPhone production. Instead of aiming to increase output by 6 million units in the second half of the year as it had planned, it will shoot for 90 million units, unchanged from the prior year, according to Bloomberg.
- Biogen — Shares of the biopharmaceutical company soared 37% following upbeat…
