Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ), The Boeing Company (BA): What’s Really Moving the Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) in 2013?

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO)’s long-term vision of dominance across the data center is finally coming together and the market is responding strongly. But like I said, this 27% jump makes less of a difference to the Dow than Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT)’s much smaller 7% move.

Play around with the chart to get a sense of which Dow stocks matter the most to the index’s point collection. Some of the answers might surprise you.

The article What’s Really Moving the Dow Jones in 2013? originally appeared on Fool.com is written by Anders Bylund.

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