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As June 1 looms closer, the likelihood of General Motors [GM
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That being said, potential replacements for Citigroup could include Wells Fargo [WFC
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]. The next biggest company by market cap in the Consumer Discretionary sector would be Amazon [AMZN
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], and Cisco [CSCO
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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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