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As June 1 looms closer, the likelihood of General Motors [GM
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] as well? On a sector basis, GM falls within the Consumer Discretionary sector and Citi is in the Financials sector. However, the last few changes to the Dow were not sector for sector. Last September, Kraft [KFT
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] and in February 2008, Bank of America [BAC
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] and Chevron [CVX
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] replaced Altria [MO
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] and Honeywell [HON
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].That being said, potential replacements for Citigroup could include Wells Fargo [WFC
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] or Wall St darling, Goldman Sachs [GS
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]. The next biggest company by market cap in the Consumer Discretionary sector would be Amazon [AMZN
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]. Once Amazon is in the mix, Apple [AAPL
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], Google [GOOG
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], and Cisco [CSCO
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] should be considered as well. Finally, with all the focus on Energy and Health Care, maybe ConocoPhillips [COP
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Whatever Dow Jones decides, it will likely lower the impact of the remaining Dow components on the overall index. Because the Dow is a price weighted index, GM and Citi ($1.44 and $3.77 respectively as of yesterday's close) have had little weight of late making the other 28 components more important. With a change, companies like current Dow price leader IBM [IBM
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