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The Dow Jones Averages: Industrial, Transportation, Utility

The Dow Jones Industrial Average

The Dow Jones Industrial Average ("The Dow") tracks price movements in 30 of the largest bluechip issues traded on the NYSE, including:

Alcoa Inc. General Electric Co. McDonald's
American Express General Motors Corp. Merck & Co.
AT&T Corp. Home Depot Inc. Microsoft Corp.
Boeing Honeywell International Inc. Minnesota Mining
Caterpillar Hewlett-Packard Co. Philip Morris
Citigroup Inc. IBM Procter & Gamble
Coca-Cola Inc Intel Corp. SBC Communications Inc.
Dupont Co. International Paper Co. United Technologies Corp.
.Eastman Kodak J.P. Morgan Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Exxon Mobil Corp. Johnson & Johnson Walt Disney

 

The Dow Jones Transportation Average

The Dow Jones Transportation Average originally comprised only railroads. The current index also reflects developments in the airline and trucking business in this mix of twenty transportation companies:

Airborne Freight Corp. Norfolk Southern Corp.
Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. Northwest Airlines Co.
AMR Corp. Roadway Express Inc.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Ryder Systems Inc.
CNF Transportation Inc. Southwest Airlines
CSX Corp. UAL Corp.
Delta Air Lines Union Pacific
Federal Express Corp. US Airways Group Inc.
GATX Corp. USFreightways
J. B. Hunt Transportation Services Yellow Corp.

 

The Dow Jones Utility Average

The Dow Jones Utility Average tracks the following 15 large electricity and natural gas utilities:

American Electric Power Edison International Public Service Enterprises
Columbia Energy Group Enron Corp. Southern Co.
Consolidated Edison Reliant Energy Texas Utilities Co.
Consolidated Natural Gas PECO Energy Co. Unicom Corp.
Duke Energy Corp. PG&E Corp. Williams Cos.