Dow Jones Index Injected With EPO And Growth Hormones

Dow Jones Index Injected With EPO And Growth Hormones Again by Wim Grommen

It is becoming more and more meaningless to compare the performance of the Dow 30 from one period to another with the continuing replacement of constituent companies that have under-performing and lower priced stocks (losers out) with companies that have higher priced stocks with greater future prospects for price appreciation (winners in).

We explain below exactly what this reconfiguring (and the further change in the Dow Divisor) encompasses and exactly how it will affect the performance of the index. Read on, its significance is absolutely dramatic! This manipulation of the performance of the Dow 30 has been going on since 1928 and it was further denigrated this week with a 3 constituent swap which will, in effect, assure that...