Considering that the Dow contains only 30 stocks and is a bizarre price weighted index, it does a surprisingly good job of tracking the S&P500. That is unless if you don't consider the past month or so. Turns out that the Dow has been lagging the S&P 500 by quite a margin.
Felix Salmon has the details
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