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30 of the largest and most widely held public companies in the United States.
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Alcoa
America Express
AT&T
Bank of America
Boeing
Caterpillar
DuPont
ExxonMobil
General Electric
Hewlett-Packard
The Home Depot
Intel
IBM
Johnson & Johnson
JP Morgan Chase
Kraft Foods
McDonald's
Merck
Microsoft
Pfizer
Procter & Gamble
Travelers
United Technologies Corporation
Verizon
Wal-Mart
Walt Disney
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Is Hasbro a part of the Dow Jones industrial average?
of course not
What year did Dow invent the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
The DJIA was first published in Customer's Afternoon Letter.[1] It was published on May 26, 1896, and represented the average of twelve stocks from important American industries. Of those original twelve, only General Electric remains part of the index.Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average
What company has been a part of the Dow Jones industrial average since the beginning?
General Electric
Is the Home Depot one of the largest corporation in the US?
Yes. It is part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
What is the djia index used for?
The DJIA index is very popular part of the stock market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is the most quoted when it comes to noting how well the market is doing.
How can you be a part of the stocks mark?
buy stocks
What is buying and selling high risk stocks called?
When an investor trades stocks of corporations that are known to be risky investments due to any variety of reasons, such as company with an earnings record that is unpredictable and whose stock price is volatile, this is often termed "speculation". Generally speaking the trader buys and sells these stocks very frequently and frequently can be as much as multiple times in one day. For the most part the stocks or bonds of the company have high price to earnings multiples. They will not be found in major indexes such as the Dow Industrial Average.
What qualifies a company to be part of the Dow Jones?
Dow Jones & Company, a financial news reporting company, has a number of financial indexes. Selection of the companies whose stock prices are represented in any Dow Jones index is determined by executives at Dow Jones & Company. The most famous of the Dow Jones indexes is the Dow Jones Industrial Average, know informally as "The Dow". It is computed using the stock prices of 30 of the largest and most widely traded companies.
Are stocks part of the estate?
Yes, they are.
Why is it good to buy stocks?
because then you essentially are a part owner of whatever company you bought stocks from.
What is a shareholder?
A person who buys stocks in a company to own part of
What happens to stocks and bonds after the stockholder dies?
They become part of the deceased persons estate If the decedent had a will, the stocks and bonds pass on to the wills beneficiaries If there was no will, the state intestacy laws determine who gets the stocks and bonds
