Dow's Top Performers :AXP, DD, GE

Published on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 12:35 Written by Gerard Lerod

New York, January 25th (TradersHuddle.com) - The Dow Jones Industrial Average is lower trading at 12616.2, which represents -0.47% versus its previous trading session close. The blue chip index is having a bad day by having only 8 Dow components trading higher.

American Express (NYSE:AXP) is the Dow's top performer this morning with the stock trading at $49.73 representing 1.02% versus the previous trading session. Shares of American Express, the credit card issuer and travel services company have defined support at $45.89 and resistance at $51.00.

DuPont (NYSE:DD) is also among the top performers early in the trading session, trading at $49.65 representing 0.48% from its previous close. DuPont, the life sciences company has calculated support and resistance levels at $43.06 and $46.48 respectively. The other top performer this morning is General Electric (NYSE:GE), which is trading at $18.9 representing 0.31% from the previous trading session.

The Dow's worst performers include Boeing (NYSE:BA) that is trading at $74.06 or -1.72% from the previous close. Shares of Boeing, the maker of the 787 Dreamliner have defined support at $62.12 and resistance at $74.74. Also among the worst performers we have Exxon (NYSE:XOM), which is trading at $85.98 representing -1.38% from the previous trading session.

Benchmark crude for January delivery is also trading lower at $97.12 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange lower by $-0.1 from the previous trading session.

The Dow is underperfoming the S&P 500 but is pretty much equal with the NASDAQ composite. The S&P 500 is currently trading at 1310.62, which represents -0.31% from previous close, the Nasdaq on the other hand is trading at 2797.59 that represents 0.39% from previous session.