Boeing Co.'s stock
BA,
+5.53%
big premarket surge Wednesday, in the wake of the aerospace and defense giant's surprise second-quarter profit report, is helping keep the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
-0.05%
in positive territory. The stock rose 5.3% ahead of the open to pace the Dow's early gainers; the implied price gain would boost the Dow's price by about 78 points, while Dow futures
YM00,
-0.10%
nudged up 10 points, or less than 0.1%. The Dow's second-biggest gainers was Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
+0.38%,
as the software giant's stock rose 1.7% after its record earnings report; the stock's implied price gain would add about 31 points to the Dow.