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Wellstone ruled

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5. What is so

Reply to saidsimplesimon (Reply #4)

Mon Oct 29, 2018, 03:37 PM

Oct 2018

interesting in this mess is this,the Dow used to be representative of the so called Nifty Fifty US industrial Companies of which thirty were the make up of the DOW. Now we see five Tech Companies distorting this average in order to market ETF's and other hi flying exotic Funds.

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