Keeping Y-T-D Tabs On The DOW 30

Check out the below 2008 Year To Date (YTD) Performance Chart of the 30 companies comprising the U.S.'s Dow Jones Industrial Average (Market Index) :

* Year To Date 2008 (through 7/24/08), the Dow is down 14% or 1,900 points...Year over year (Jul 25, 2007 - Jul 24, 2008), the Dow is down 17% or 2,400 points

* Only 5 out of the 30 DOW companies (less than 17% of the index) are 'net gainers' on the year - Dupont (DD), IBM, Walmart (WMT), McDonald's (MCD) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)

* Only 2 of these 5 'gainers' have convincing gains - Walmart (+22%) and IBM (+20%)

* In terms of DOGS of the DOW, 3 companies have lost over 40% of their marketcap during 2008 - AIG (-48%), Merk (-45%) and General Motors (-41%)

* Interesting to note the right-most performance column (performance since 7/15/08)...Bank of America (BAC) is up 80% in less than 10 days ! Don't get too excited though..their still down almost 20% on the year.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/86776-dow-30-performance-since-7-15

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