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But for some reason last Friday evening — maybe because I was bored on the train ride home and I don't pass the time playing "Brickbreaker" — I opened and paged down one of the stock-stat emails.
It came as no surprise that General Motors is the December dog of the Dow — down more than 30 percent so far this month.
But I was definitely caught off guard when I saw that Merck (Merck!) is the best performing Dow component in December, with less than three trading days left. MRK shares [MRK
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] are up eight-and-a-half percent.
Could the drugmaker's annual analyst meeting earlier this month have been a catalyst? Or did investors simply decide the stock's cheap with a high dividend yield?
Check back later today when I will reveal the best-performing Nasdaq 100 stock year-to-date. The index is down 42 percent in 2008. But the top stock is up nearly 27 percent. Hint: It's a biopharma stock.
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