Alphabet to join Dow Jones in rare index reshuffle Tech Alphabet will replace Verizon Communications in the Dow Jones Industrial Average next week, S&P Dow Jones Indices announced on Wednesday, in the blue-chip index’s first structural change since Nvidia displaced Intel in 2024. The Google parent’s Class A shares will join other members of the so-called Magnificent Seven including Nvidia, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft in [...]
Trump torpor: What explains markets’ muted response to Venezuela and Greenland? Markets It is understandable that of the dozens of 2026 market outlook papers published by banks and analysts last month, not one predicted that Venezuela’s autocratic leader, Nicolas Maduro, would be captured in a historic overnight raid just three days into the New Year. Even more forgivable, is the fact none foresaw the rapid escalation of [...]
On this day: May 26 1896 — the first Dow Jones Industrial Average is published Markets Charles Dow was a financial journalist with a rare gift. A high school dropout from rural Connecticut, he was able to explain the arcana of investment, stocks and bonds in clear, straightforward terms. In 1882, he and two other journalists, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser, founded Dow Jones & Company Inc. in a basement at [...]