Citi, GM Lose Their Spots on the DJIA
Dow Jones said The Travelers Companies, Inc. (TRV)
is taking the place of Citigroup, Inc. (C) and Cisco
Systems, Inc. (CSCO) is being substituted for General
Motors Corp. (GM) – both as of the opening of trading on
June 8, 2009.
“The parlous state of GM has left us with no choice
but to remove it from The Dow. A bankruptcy filing
immediately disqualifies a stock regardless of a
company’s history or its role as a cultural
icon,” said Robert Thomson, managing editor of The
Wall Street Journal and editor-in-chief for all of Dow
Jones, in the announcement. “We were reluctant to
remove Citigroup at the height of the financial frenzy,
but it is clear that the bank is in the midst of a
substantial restructuring which will see the government
with a large and ongoing stake. We genuinely hope that
once the bank has refashioned itself that we will again
be able to consider it for inclusion – Citigroup is a
renowned institution, not only in this country, but
around the world.”
Thomson oversees the makeup of the index, which Charles
H. Dow created as a 12-stock index in May 1896.
Selecting Travelers, Cisco
“The selection of Travelers, a property and
casualty insurance company, is intended to restore the
financials industry to full representation in The
Dow,” Thomson said. “When we removed American
International Group, Inc. last fall, we substituted Kraft
Foods, Inc. rather than another financial stock because
the financials industry was then in great upheaval. That
choice left financials underrepresented in The Dow, a
deficiency we are now correcting.”
Thomson said that Cisco is a fitting addition
“because its communications and computer-networking
products are vital to an economy and culture still
adapting to the Information Age – just as automobiles
were essential to America in the 20th Century.”
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