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Apple (AAPL) stock rose Friday on news that the Cupertino, Calif.-based consumer electronics leader will join the Dow Jones Industrial Average later this month. Apple will replace telecom company AT&T (T) on the 119-year-old blue-chip stock index at the close of trading March 18. AT&T has been part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since October 1916. The much-followed index has just 30 companies. Since the Dow is weighted by price rather than market cap, Apple’s 7-for-1 stock split in June 2014 made the change possible. Apple stock was up 1% in late-morning trading on the stock market today. Some, however, see Apple’s addition to the Dow a warning flag. The Dow selection committee has a history of adding companies that are past their prime. Intel (INTC) and Microsoft (MSFT), for example, joined the index in November 1999 and have been laggards since then…. Scalper1 News
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