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The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.24% is rising 47 points, or 0.1%, to buck the selloff in the broader market, but it be up a lot more if it wasn't for the blue-chip barometer's biggest technology components. The biggest drag on the Dow is Microsoft Corp.'s stock MSFT, -2.38% , which is down $8.64, or 2.7%, followed by fellow software giant Salesforce.com Inc. shares CRM, -2.63% , which shed $7.22, or 3.0%.
negative