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Originally posted by Dennis Kalma
Oh well, hopefully someone who really understands what is going on can enlighten all of us...
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You bring up an excellent point. you may want to compare it to something like the wilshire 5000 index....
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=my&s=%5EDWC&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=&c=%5EDJI
i dont claim to understand it at all, but the dow is made up of 30 companies and changes over the years.
Here's a list...
3M Company (MMM)
Alcoa Inc. (AA)
Altria Group, Inc. (MO)
American Express Co. (AXP)
American Int'l. Group (AIG)
Boeing Co. (BA)
Caterpillar, Inc. (CAT)
Citigroup Inc. (C)
Coca-Cola Co. (KO)
DuPont (E.I.) deNemours (DD)
Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM)
General Electric Co. (GE)
General Motors (GM)
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ)
Home Depot, Inc. (HD)
Honeywell Int'l. Inc. (HON)
Intel Corp. (INTC)
International Bus. Mach. (IBM)
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM)
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
McDonalds Corp. (MCD)
Merck & Co. Inc. (MRK)
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
Pfizer Inc. (PFE)
Procter & Gamble Co. (PG)
SBC Communications, Inc. (SBC)
United Technologies Corp. (UTX)
Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ)
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT)
Walt Disney Co. (DIS)
The nasdq and s&p are both up for 2005 i think.. GM really weighed on the dow this year