The Dow Jones Industrial Average® (The Dow®), is a price-weighted measure of 30 U.S. blue-chip companies. The index covers all industries except transportation and utilities.
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Your lack of knowledge is a joke.
“The Industrial portion of the name is largely historical, as many of the modern 30 components have little or nothing to do with traditional heavy industry. “
The Dow is a bogus long term indicator, much like Global Warming proxies.
Does the index cover the Pr0n Industry?
Quite right, it started out with a lot of mining stocks, possibly some railroads, maybe steel, and has kept pace with the changes of the economy... hmm, here it is, originally 12 companies — American Cotton Oil, American Sugar, American Tobacco, Chicago Gas, Distilling & Cattle Feeding, General Electric, Laclede Gas, National Lead, North American, Tennessee Coal and Iron, U.S. Leather pfd. and U.S. Rubber. [ https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/100214/who-were-original-dow-jones-industrial-average-djia-companies.asp ]
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