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<p id="isPasted">Dow Jones is a company that provides a variety of information about financial markets. They are best known for the Dow Jones Industrials stock index. This index takes the prices of I think about 40 stocks of prominent companies, multiplies each price by a mysterious multiplier, and adds the results to get a number which is widely publicized. The number is supposed to reflect prices of stocks in general.</p><p>It kinda sorta does, but there are several other indices that reflect the overall stock market more accurately. The main problems with the Dow are that:</p><p>It uses only about 40 …</p>
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<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is a highly manipulated price average of 30 stocks of publicly traded companies selected and published by Dow Jones and Company, who are also the publishers of – among other things – The Wall Street Journal.</p>
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<p id="isPasted">Charles Dow and Edward Jones had a company (Dow Jones) which published the Wall Street Journal and created, calculated and published several stock market indices. The most famous index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, is often used as a proxy for “the market” in popular news</p><p>Now the newspaper business is part of News Corp, and the index business in part of Standard and Poors.</p>
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<p id="isPasted">The 30 companies that make up the Dow Jones Index, as of this writing, are as follows:</p><ol><li>3M Co</li><li>American Express Co</li><li>AT&T Inc</li><li>Boeing Co</li><li>Caterpillar Inc</li><li>Chevron Corp</li><li>Cisco Systems Inc</li><li>The Coca-Cola Co</li><li>Walt Disney Co</li><li>E I du Pont de Nemours and Co</li><li>Exxon Mobil Corp</li><li>General Electric Co</li><li>Goldman Sachs Group Inc</li><li>Home Depot Inc</li><li>International Business Machine</li><li>Intel Corp</li><li>Johnson & Johnson</li><li>JPMorgan Chase and Co</li><li>McDonald's Corp</li><li>Merck & Co Inc</li><li>Microsoft Corp</li><li>Nike Inc</li><li>Pfizer Inc</li><li>Procter & Gamble Co</li><li>Travelers Companies Inc</li><li>United Technologies Corp</li><li>UnitedHealth Group Inc</li><li>Verizon Communications Inc …</li></ol>
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<p id="isPasted">Following are DOW 30 stocks :</p><ul><li>Amgen Inc</li><li>Apple Inc</li><li>Boeing Co</li><li>Caterpillar Inc</li><li>Cisco Systems Inc</li><li>Chevron Corp</li><li>Goldman Sachs Group Inc</li><li>Home Depot Inc</li><li>Honeywell International Inc</li><li>International Business Machines Corp</li><li>Intel Corp</li><li>Johnson & Johnson</li><li>Coca-Cola Co</li><li>JPMorgan Chase & Co</li><li>McDonald’s Corp</li><li>3M Co</li><li>Merck & Co Inc</li><li>Microsoft Corp</li><li>Nike Inc</li><li>Procter & Gamble Co</li><li>Travelers Companies Inc</li><li>UnitedHealth Group Inc</li><li>Verizon Communications Inc</li><li>Visa Inc</li><li>Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc</li><li>Walmart Inc</li><li>Walt Disney Co</li><li>Dow Inc</li></ul><p>Thanks</p>
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