BU Now » Dow Jones Industrial Average http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow News, information and research from Boston University Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:14:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 SEC probes stock-market plunge http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2010/05/10/sec-probes-stock-market-plunge/ http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2010/05/10/sec-probes-stock-market-plunge/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 16:49:19 +0000 Dick Taffe http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/?p=5491 stock tradingHeads of the major stock exchanges were summoned to Washington by federal regulators to try to help figure out what caused last week’s computerized sell-off the shot the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 1,000 points in a matter of minutes.  Law Professor Elizabeth Nowicki, a former Securities and Exchange Commission attorney and Wall Street lawyer, said the incident was similar to the ‘Black Monday’ crash in 1987, which the markets survived.

“The vehement suggestion that the SEC should adopt forthwith market circuit breakers for all markets is premature, given that liquidity is needed to some degree to help markets self-correct, even if short-term volatility is unnerving.”

Contact Elizabeth Nowicki, 518-867-5355, enowicki@bu.edu

]]> http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2010/05/10/sec-probes-stock-market-plunge/feed/ 0 GM, Citi off Dow Jones Industrials http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2009/06/01/gm-citi-off-dow-jones-industrials/ http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2009/06/01/gm-citi-off-dow-jones-industrials/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:11:03 +0000 Dick Taffe http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/?p=632 General Motors and Citigroup both are being taken off the Dow Jones Industrials Average listings, to be replaced by Travelers Insurance and Cisco Systems.  School of Management finance Professor Scott Stewart, a former long-time Fidelity funds manager, can discuss what the shifts in the Dow Jones composition means to investors.

Contact Scott Stewart, 617-353-2353, sstewart@bu.edu

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