The Dow Jones Industrial Average was under pressure Friday afternoon, weighed by selling in shares of Apple Inc. and UnitedHealth. The Dow components, the worst blue-chip performers, were exacting a combined 50-point toll on the Dow in midday trading. UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s shares alone were dragging the benchmark down about 30 points, with shares trading $4.24, or 2.2% lower. Meanwhile, Apple Inc. was trading 1.7% lower, or $2.59, and on pace for its worst weekly decline, down 5.5%, during the week of one of its iPhone product updates. A $1 move in any one of the Dow’s 30 components is equal to a 6.89-point swing. Most recently, the Dow was down 34 points, or 0.2%, at 22,324. Overall, the market was flipping between advances and declines as investors wrestled with North Korea’s threat to detonate a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean this weekend. The S&P 500 index was down 0.1% at 2,497, while the Nasdaq Composite Index was trading 0.1% lower at 6,415.
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