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Can we please stop using the Dow Jones Industrial Average? It's a terrible metric and there are so many alternatives that blow it out of the water (eg SP500). (DJIA is based on only THIRTY companies! The tiny sample size made sense when it was hard to compile the data but that's not hard anymore).
Apr 5, 2025, 1:49 AM
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