Thursday, February 9, 2012

The Dow is a horribly constructed index

Another nice post from Kid Dynamite.  This time having a go at the Dow Jones Average.   If you don't know why the S&P 500 is fundamentally different from the Dow 30 (apart from the little matter of 470 stocks), then you need to read this.
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