Dow drops 225 points on Walmart stock losses, Salesforce.com Inc.

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Following the decline in shares of Walmart and Salesforce.com Inc., the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls on Thursday morning. Walmart WMT Shares,
-5.61%
and Salesforce.com Inc. CRM,
-1.07%
contribute to the intraday decline in the index, as the Dow DJIA,
-0.78%
recently traded 228 points (0.7%) lower. Shares of Walmart have fallen $ 8.76, or 6.0%, while those of Salesforce.com Inc. they have fallen $ 3.56 (1.4%), combined for an approximately 81-point drag on the Dow. Other components that contribute significantly to the decline are Apple Inc. AAPL,
-1.74%,
Boeing BA,
-2.69%,
and Chevron CVX,
-0.81%.
A move of $ 1 on any of the 30 components of the index equates to an oscillation of 6.58 points.

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