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The Motley Fool February 2, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Why the Dow Makes Little Sense Don't pay so much attention to this oft-cited index.  |
The Motley Fool April 30, 2007 John Rosevear |
Why 13,000 Doesn't Matter How much should we care about the grand old Dow? Is this classic index really worth the attention it gets?  |
The Motley Fool May 26, 2006 S.J. Caplan |
Happy Birthday, Dow! The Dow Jones Industrial Average turns 110 years old today.  |
The Motley Fool September 24, 2011 Evan Niu |
Why Apple Doesn't Belong in the Dow The Dow may be missing out on Apple, but Apple isn't missing out on the Dow.  |
The Motley Fool January 29, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
The Math of the Dow Ever wonder how the Dow Jones Industrial Average is calculated?  |
The Motley Fool June 20, 2005 |
The Math of the Dow Ever wonder how the Dow Jones Industrial Average is calculated? The Dow is just an average -- but a weird one.  |
BusinessWeek June 16, 2011 Roben Farzad |
Why Apple Isn't in the Dow Only ExxonMobil is bigger in the U.S. than Apple. While it might add 1,000 points to the Dow if it were on board, its high stock price would distort the index.  |
The Motley Fool August 30, 2004 |
Who's in the Dow? Did you realize that the Dow is an average of just 30 companies?  |
The Motley Fool October 15, 2010 Andrew Bond |
Dow Back Over 11,000! Who Cares? The Dow Jones industrial average does not give a good read on the overall economy.  |
The Motley Fool January 11, 2012 Anand Chokkavelu |
Why Bank of America Couldn't Save the Dow Today Bank of America was the biggest Dow mover today, up 3.6%, to bring its year-to-date recovery off a disastrous 2011 to 23.6%.  |
BusinessWeek January 9, 2006 Aaron Pressman |
Should The Dow Ditch General Motors? General Motor's troubles are skewing the index and battering investors who bet on it.  |
The Motley Fool February 19, 2004 Philip Durell |
Pigs of the Dow You've heard of the Dogs of the Dow. How about the Pigs? The worst-performing Dow stocks of the year. While trading costs and taxes always need to be taken into consideration with a strategy like this, the Pigs look like they might be leaving the Dogs in the dust.  |
Fast Company Chris Gayomali |
Apple To Join The Dow Jones The Cupertino-based technology company will replace telecom giant AT&T in the index as it reshuffles "pending a 4-for-1 stock split by Dow component Visa Inc."  |
The Motley Fool May 11, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Dow 10,000? Ooops! They call nice round numbers like 10,000 psychological barriers. As the Dow Jones Industrial Average buckled below that mark at yesterday's close -- the first time that has happened this year -- one is left to wonder if the market should see a shrink about the shrink in its valuation.  |
The Motley Fool January 20, 2012 Eric Bleeker |
Why Tech Stocks Should Drive the Dow Higher Today A series of tech earnings could put the Dow in positive territory.  |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Dow Needs to Clean House The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a joke. Really.  |
The Motley Fool January 20, 2005 |
"The Dow," Demystified Did you know "The Dow" is all about just 30 companies?  |
The Motley Fool December 21, 2011 Anand Chokkavelu |
Why the Dow Didn't Fall Today It was a flat day for the market, but a bad day for tech.  |
The Motley Fool June 1, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Stupid Dow Tricks The Dow Jones Industrial Average rearranges its deck chairs.  |
The Motley Fool January 7, 2012 Dari FitzGerald |
A Roller-Coaster Week for the Dow And the ride is not over yet.  |
The Motley Fool September 6, 2006 |
Dow Calculations, Explained Ever wonder how the Dow can be an average at more than 11,000?  |
The Motley Fool March 5, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
3 Reasons Why the Dow Won't Hit 5,000 The Dow Jones Industrial Average is hurting, but don't wait up for it to hit 5,000.  |
The Motley Fool November 28, 2010 |
Should You Care About the Dow? Surely you've tuned into the news lately, right? Well, how did the Dow Jones Industrials fare? Did you look? Did you see? Did you care?  |
The Motley Fool July 6, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
A Fund Designed to Grow Instead of tracking the Dow or the S&P 500, the PowerShares FTSE RAFI US 1000 ETF tracks an index weighted by company fundamentals, which has given better performance historically.  |
The Motley Fool December 30, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Can You Beat Index Funds in 2009? Get the right mix in your investments.  |
The Motley Fool January 14, 2012 Dan Dzombak |
2011: A Crazy Year for the Dow A look back at the Dow Jones Industrial Average's performance in 2011.  |
The Motley Fool January 20, 2012 Dan Dzombak |
Why the Dow Is Rallying This Morning Friday is treating the Dow well.  |
The Motley Fool November 10, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
The Dow's New High Signals Change Is the shift to quality beginning? This high could be symbolic of a shift in the market away from lower-quality/higher-risk names to higher-quality stocks.  |
The Motley Fool March 22, 2005 |
Beyond the S&P 500 Index investors have more choices than just the S&P 500.  |
The Motley Fool January 14, 2011 Matt Koppenheffer |
Could Apple Have Saved the Dow? Where would the Dow be today if Apple had been included?  |
The Motley Fool June 5, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Why Citigroup Is Destined for Greatness Rejects from the Dow have outperformed their replacements.  |
The Motley Fool June 16, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
How to Evaluate Your Returns How can an investor track the market? How can he know how well the market has done from a given date to the present? Read on to see how.  |
InternetNews December 21, 2004 Paul Shread |
Technical Analysis: Outside Day And a new high for the Dow.  |
The Motley Fool October 22, 2011 Robert Eberhard |
7 Stocks the Dow Has Liked for a Long Time Here is a closer look at the senior stocks on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.  |
The Motley Fool October 5, 2006 Alex Dumortier |
What the Dow's New High Means There is nothing of much use to conclude from the market's new high -- it's a completely pedestrian observation (thinking strictly in terms of the absolute level, whether a new high or otherwise, is much more useful).  |
The Motley Fool March 12, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Bring Your Portfolio Into the 21st Century Keeping a simple approach, the Global Dow includes 150 companies from around the world. About 40% of its value comes from U.S. stocks; the rest is split mainly among Europe, Japan, and emerging markets.  |
The Motley Fool January 13, 2012 Austin Smith |
Why These Stocks Are Sinking the Dow Right Now A look at today's sharp drop.  |
The Motley Fool June 2, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
5 Stocks That Were Cheated These are the stocks that should have been inducted into the Dow Jones Industrial Average.  |
The Motley Fool October 12, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
Can the Market Keep Rising? Short-term stakes on a long-term road.  |
The Motley Fool September 21, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Why You Should Ignore the Dow The oldest popular market measure is also the least useful.  |
Financial Planning May 1, 2006 Elizabeth O'Brien |
S&P Muscles in on Wilshire More and more index makers are offering the same products -- but they insist there's a difference. Planners should take the time to explain the differences to their individual clients in order to "manage expectations."  |
InternetNews September 24, 2009 |
Technical Analysis: Nasdaq Runs Into Old Support The stock market faces a big test in the weakest part of the year.  |
The Motley Fool January 10, 2012 Ilan Moscovitz |
What You Need to Know About the Dow's Monday Rally A recap of the day's biggest movers.  |
The Motley Fool September 1, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Mutual Fund Fakery Is your expensive, managed fund really an index fund in disguise?  |
The Motley Fool November 18, 2005 |
The Dow's Components Did you know out of thousands and thousands of existing companies, just 30 make up the Dow?  |
The Motley Fool October 19, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Is Your Index Fund Behaving Stupidly? You don't have to settle for investment allocations in your funds that you don't like.  |
The Motley Fool August 11, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
Has the Dow Topped? Are the bulls starting to tire?  |
Registered Rep. January 7, 2010 |
Dow Dogs in Doghouse The Dogs of the Dow strategy was made popular by Michael O' Higgins in his 1991 book, Beating the Dow.  |
The Motley Fool January 14, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Your Index Fund Is Making a Bad Investment Funds have to do what the indexes they track do.  |
InternetNews January 20, 2005 Paul Shread |
Technical Analysis: It's Now Up To The Blue Chips The Dow and S&P are the only hope for the bulls at this point.  |