Dow Jones Industrial Weightings

[Joma]

IBM is leading the pack with a 6,15 %, Boeing 5,8 %, Altria 5,48 % and 3M with a 5,08 % weighting...

Funny, isn´t it ? GE and MSFT are positioned 23d respecticve 28th ...

Watch the actual list at :

http://www.djindexes.com/mdsidx/

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[chanster]

thats because its $ weighted and not cap weighted. so a higher price stock like mo falls 10% has almost 4 times the effect as a ge falling 10%. look at pfe the other week falling $4. even though it fell like 18% mo would have had to fall $14 to have the same effect.