Bank of America, 1.6% lower, were in the worst shape among the Dow 30.
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The company once was highly profitable, flush with cash, and one of the worshiped Dow 30.
Please note that according to Finviz data, just six of the Dow 30 are down on the year as of December 7.
In the U.S. the Dow 30 rebounded in 1932, but fell back in 1937 and didn't fully recover from the 1929 crash until 1954.
She and Brunie both recommend big drug stocks like Sanofi-Aventis and GlaxoSmithKline, and she'd also buy just about anything in the Dow 30, including Citigroup, General Electric, and Exxon Mobil.
As a group, these stocks have been shellacked since they joined the Dow 30, but along the way they have continued to make a lot of money for anyone who purchased shares when stock prices were excessively low.
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Nasdaq can claim many of the biggest tech names, including Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ), while the NYSE can claim the Dow 30.
For example, turning the clock back to March 1999 when the Dow Jones Averages closed above 10, 000 for the first time, then crested to 11, 000 a few months later, four of the biggest names of the day joined the Dow 30.
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Target of the CITIC plunge into aluminium, the worst performing metal of the past 10 years, was an Australian affiliate of the Dow 30 member, Alcoa, with Citic Resources Holdings snapping up 7.8% stake in ASX-listed Alumina Ltd and Citic Group taking a 5.2% interest.
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Or take Carly Fiorina, who on becoming CEO of H-P in 1999 became the first female CEO of a Dow Jones 30 company.
Among single stocks, Cisco Systems led gains across 27 of the 30 Dow stocks.
The Dogs stocks rose 10.7% last year, excluding dividend income, surpassing the 5.5% increase for all 30 Dow stocks.
While 28 of 30 Dow stocks enjoyed a first-quarter rally, Caterpillar and Alcoa found themselves in the red.
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And cumulatively, from 2001 through 2010, the Dogs yielded a smaller return than investing in all 30 Dow components, according to Bespoke.
The price-to-earnings ratio of the 30 Dow components was about 15.6 as of Tuesday, based on the past year's earnings, up from 14.3 a year ago.
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Aluminum-maker Alcoa, the first of the 30 Dow Jones industrial average components to report first-quarter earnings, recorded sharply higher profits from a year ago on growing global demand for its products in material in commercial construction and aerospace.
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However, of the 30 stocks currently in the Dow eleven of them (more than 30%) are still down hugely, an average of 61.2%, from their levels in 2000.
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It should be noted that even though I have followed the Dow Jones Averages closely for over 30 years, I have never relied solely on Dow Theory methods to generate stock market buy or sell signals.
Since the Dow is composed of 30 large-cap companies that tend to have low implied volatilities, I assumed it would have been most profitable to buy options on these stocks.
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The Dow also includes only 30 out of the thousands of listed stocks traded on U.S. exchanges, and 30 hand-picked stocks at that, chosen by a committee with few hard rules.
The 30-stock Dow closed at 14, 579 Thursday, up 0.4% on the session, to wrap up a first-quarter gain of 11.3%.
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Dow 14, 000 is 30% above the low of five months ago, which itself was about 60% above the bottom hit in 2009.
JPMorgan Chase was among the handful of winners in the 30-stock Dow, adding 0.9% ahead of its own second-quarter results Friday morning.
The 30-stock Dow climbed as high as 14, 286 in afternoon trading, finishing the day with a 126 point, or 0.9%, gain to 14, 253.77.
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That depends on the more than 30 members of the Bancroft family, who own 30% of Dow Jones's shares and 62% of its voting rights.
Caterpillar, one of only two names in the 30-stock Dow in negative territory for the year, led the index higher Tuesday with an 1.7% gain.
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