[BRIEFING.COM] The Dow Jones Industrial Average (+0.70%) is in first place on Friday afternoon, up about 355 points.
A look inside the DJIA shows that IBM (IBM 291.42, +27.20, +10.29%), Salesforce (CRM 193.66, +17.49, +9.93%), and Microsoft (MSFT 443.26, +16.27, +3.81%) hold solid gains.
Meanwhile, Walmart (WMT 115.60, -3.30, -2.78%) is at the bottom of the average.
The DJIA is poised to end the week +0.88% higher.
Also, at the top of the hour, Baker Hughes (BKR 64.84, +0.13, +0.20%) announced a weekly U.S. rotary rig count of 562, +4 w/w and -1 yr/yr.