The Dow Today !

3M Alcoa "American Express" AT&T "Bank of America" Boeing
Caterpillar Chevron "Cisco Systems" Coca-Cola DuPont
Exxon Mobil "General Electric" Hewlett-Packard "Home Depot"
IBM Intel "Johnson & Johnson" "JPMorgan Chase" "Kraft Foods"
McDonald’s Merck Microsoft Pfizer "Procter & Gamble"
"The Travelers Companies" "United Technologies" Verizon
"Wal-Mart Stores" "Walt Disney"

Did You Know?
— General Electric is the only stock in The Dow® today that was also included in the original 12. It was removed twice in the early years of the 20th century but both times was returned to the industrial average in subsequent component changes.
— For more than four months in the second half of 1914, The Dow® was not published. The New York Stock Exchange was closed because of World War I. It was feared that the instability caused by the war would cause the market to plummet.

— Throughout most of its history, the industrial average’s components have been chosen from among the stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange, though there was never any rule in the index’s methodology that said an NYSE listing was a requirement for eligibility. It was not until November 1, 1999, that stocks from the Nasdaq Stock Market (Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp.) were added to The Dow®.
— No component changes were made to the Dow Jones Industrial
AverageSM during the 1940s and the 1960s.
— The Dow’s greatest one-day percentage gain took place March 15,1933, well into the Depression. The index rose 15.34%, or 8.26 points, on that day. Its greatest percentage loss was on October 19, 1987—otherwise known as “Black Monday”—when the industrial average fell 22.61%, or 508.00 points.