The Global Dow (GDOW) is a 150-stock index of corporations from around the world, created by Dow Jones & Company. Only blue-chip stocks are included in the index.
Like its progenitor, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDU), stocks in The Global Dow are selected by senior editors of The Wall Street Journal. Joining them for this new index were Dow Jones Newswires senior editors in the three major regions of the globe. The Global Dow is bigger—150 stocks rather than 30—and its components are weighted equally rather than by price. All 30 Dow industrial stocks are included, as well as some from the Dow Jones Transportation and Utility averages.
The Global Dow tracks leading companies from around the world in all industries, selected not just for current size and reputation but also for their potential. It covers both developed and emerging markets. In addition, it includes companies from emerging sectors, such as alternative energy. The components are equally weighted, which means that price movements of the larger stocks have no greater impact on index performance than those of the smaller stocks.
The Global Dow is calculated and disseminated in real time by Dow Jones Indexes. Current and closing values can be accessed daily in The Wall Street Journal, and real time at www.djindexes.com . The Base Value is 1000 as of December 31, 2000.
The Global Dow (GDOW) components
3M
ABB
Abbott Laboratories
Alcoa
Allianz
Amazon
América Móvil
Amgen
American Express
Anglo American plc
Anheuser-Busch InBev
Apple
ArcelorMittal
Assicurazioni Generali
AstraZeneca
AT&T
BAE Systems
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria
Banco Santander
Bank of America
Bank of New York Mellon
BASF
Baxter International
Bharti Airtel
BHP
BNP Paribas
Boeing
Bridgestone
BP
Canon
Carnival Corporation & plc
Carrefour
Caterpillar
Chevron Corporation
China Construction Bank
China Mobile
China Petroleum & Chemical
China Unicom
Cisco Systems
CLP Holdings
The Coca-Cola Company
Colgate-Palmolive
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
CEMIG
Companhia Vale do Rio Doce Pref A
ConocoPhillips
Credit Suisse Group
Daimler AG
Deere & Co
Deutsche Bank
DuPont
E.ON
eBay
EDP-Energias de Portugal
Ericsson
ExxonMobil
FedEx
Esprit Holdings
First Solar
Freeport-McMoRan
Gazprom
GDF Suez
General Electric
Gilead Sciences
GlaxoSmithKline
Goldman Sachs
Hanwha Q Cells
Hewlett-Packard
Home Depot
Honda
Honeywell
HSBC(UK registered) Hutchison Whampoa IBM Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Infosys Johnson & Johnson JPMorgan Chase Komatsu Kraft Foods LG Electronics LVMH McDonald's Medtronic Merck & Co Medco Health Solutions Microsoft Mitsubishi Corporation Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Mitsui & Co Mizuho Financial Group Monsanto Company Nasdaq National Australia Bank National Grid plc Nestle News Corp Cl A Nike Cl B Nintendo Nippon Steel Nokia Novartis Panasonic PetroChina Petroleo Brasileiro S/A Pref Pfizer Philip Morris International PotashCorp Procter & Gamble Reliance Industries Renewable Energy Corporation Rio Tinto Roche Holding AG Part. Cert. Royal Bank of Canada Royal Dutch Shell A Samsung SAP Schlumberger Seven & I Holdings Siemens Société Générale Sony Southwest Airlines SunPower Corp. Cl A Suntech Power Holdings TSMC Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Tata Steel Telefónica Tesco Time Warner Toshiba TotalEnergies Toyota Travelers UBS UniCredit United Parcel Service Cl B United Technologies Veolia Environnement Verizon Communications Vestas Vinci Visa Cl A Vodafone Wal-Mart Stores Walt Disney Company