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In reply to the discussion: Dow Jones Industrial Average hits 14,000 [View all]Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)Ask yourself why the DOW is so high? It's because corporations are posting great earnings...of those which have reported their 4th quarter, 77% beat earnings estimates. Where do those earnings come from? Fewer workers, making less money... Below are the 30 companies which make up the DOW (Dow Jones Industrial Average) You tell me which are good for average Americans. Which haven't either outsourced manufacturing, broken the economy, overcharge for their products and services, underpay their US employees. How many of these stocks do you own? Either individually or in your 401K?
AA Alcoa Inc.
AXP American Express Company
BA The Boeing Company
BAC Bank of America Corporation
CAT Caterpillar Inc.
CSCO Cisco Systems, Inc.
CVX Chevron Corporation
DD E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
DIS The Walt Disney Company
GE General Electric Company
HD The Home Depot, Inc.
HPQ Hewlett-Packard Company
IBM International Business Machines Corporation
INTC Intel Corporation
JNJ Johnson & Johnson
JPM JPMorgan Chase & Co.
KO The Coca-Cola Company
MCD McDonald's Corp.
MMM 3M Company
MRK Merck & Co. Inc.
MSFT Microsoft Corporation
PFE Pfizer Inc.
PG Procter & Gamble Co.
T AT&T, Inc.
TRV The Travelers Companies, Inc.
UNH UnitedHealth Group Incorporated
UTX United Technologies Corp.
VZ Verizon Communications Inc.
WMT Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
XOM Exxon-Mobile