Barron's Cover Story Wants To Tinker With The Dow So It Hides Stock Market Bubbles en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 05:00:18 -0400 Sam Ro jomamam Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:23:54 -0400 No one who actually works in the markets quotes the Dow. Everyone just quotes where the SPX is at, so who cares? Just let the Dow sit and be quoted by grandma's and people at bars in NYC and DC who want to sound smart. JustMe Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:12:06 -0400 result = aapl is a bubble Let the DowJ do what they want. If you want a better index for yourself, just do it. KSC Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:53:23 -0400 As you correctly point out the DOW is "significantly biased because it's a price-weighted (not market-cap-weighted) index of just 30 stocks, which are more or less picked arbitrarily" Do you honestly believe that this is the most appropriate primary index to use as a proxy for the "stock market"? Does it make sense for changes int he DOW (typically report in points not % which just makes things worse) to be reported on the radio multiple times a day? Do you not believe that the S&P 500 is more representative of the market as a whole. Yes the S&P was overweight on tech stocks in 1999-2001, but you know what that was representative of the market as a whole. Don't we already have a metric that represents the "economy" instead of the stock market, it is called the GNP. Jungle Jim Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:02:24 -0400 If Barrons really wants to make the Dow a better indicator, I have a modest proposal, prevail upon the US Govt to stop screwing around with the economy. Let the "effing" market work, it will if they'll stop the criminal stupidity. Between the incompetents at the Fed for the last twenty years and a series of Presidents attempts to gussy things up so they will be re-elected we have screwed the economy up royally. It isn't the Dow that doesn't work, its the economy itself. i cant believe it Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:35:54 -0400 i actually read a good article on business insider.