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Mar.13
8:32 AM ET
Friday, 13 Mar 2009
4 Dow Stocks Set to Break Records
Posted By:Ariel Nelson
Topics:Dow Jones Industrial Average | Stock Market
Companies:Exxon Mobil Corp | Wal-Mart Stores Inc | Verizon Communications | United Technologies Corp | Merck & Co Inc | 3M Company | McDonalds Corp | Coca Cola Co | Kraft Foods Inc. | JPMorgan Chase and Co | Johnson and Johnson | Intel Corp | IBM | Hewlett-Packard Co | Home Depot Inc | General Motors Corp | Walt Disney Co | Du Pont EI de Nemours | Chevron Corp | Caterpillar Inc | Citigroup Inc | Bank of America Corp | American Express Co | ALCOA Inc | General Electric | Pfizer Inc | Boeing Co | Procter & Gamble Co | Microsoft Corp
The major indices have some distance to go today if they are going to break weekly records. However, there are 4 Dow components that are on track for their best week in at least 40 years (individual stock data available from 1968): Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, GE, and American Express. Additionally, DuPont is within striking distance. 5 of the top 6 performers in the Dow this week also set records in November. Of note, most of the individual weekly records were also set in recessionary periods.
Biggest Weekly Gains for Major Indices:
- Dow [.DJIA
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] - Up 16.11% on 6/26/1931 (currently up 9.9% for the week)
- NASDAQ [COMP
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] - Up 18.98% on 6/2/2000 (currently up 10.2% for the week)
Dow Components Week to Date:
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