[Michael Barnes]

The DOW is smoke and mirrors. It's not a composite of *everything* traded, it is a "trend" of small set of companies that trade.
It can manipulated.
Compound that with micro trades happening at just under a fraction of the speed of light from some very sophisticated algorithm's;
Don't trust the DOW.

[SueRae]

I don’t. It isn’t even an “industrial” average anymore...

[Reynoldo]

But NASDAQ and the S&P 500 (much broader than the Dow) are showing results very similar to the Dow.