Dow Movers: CAT, KO

In early trading on Friday, shares of Coca-Cola topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 1.5%. Year to date, Coca-Cola registers a 12.6% gain.

And the worst performing Dow component thus far on the day is Caterpillar, trading down 2.8%. Caterpillar is showing a gain of 52.7% looking at the year to date performance.

Two other components making moves today are NVIDIA, trading down 2.8%, and McDonald's, trading up 1.2% on the day.

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