Dow Jones Jumps as Apple Stock Rallies, Salesforce.com Stock Slumps Ahead of Earnings

Dow Jones Jumps as Apple Stock Rallies, Salesforce.com Stock Slumps Ahead of Earnings

The Dow was up about 0.93% at 2 p.m. EST. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was leading the Dow higher on Tuesday, surging more than 3% despite only minor news related to cloud access to its Mac computers for developers. Meanwhile, shares of Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) were lower a few hours before the software company was scheduled to report quarterly results and potentially announce the acquisition of Slack (NYSE: WORK).