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Why Amazon is replacing Walgreens Boots Alliance on the Dow Jones

by Kristin Schwab
Feb 21, 2024
A Dow Jones committee considers company growth and investor interest when deciding which stocks to include in the index.
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What's a stock split, anyway?

by Nick Wilson
Feb 11, 2022
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, plans a 20-1 stock split. Similar moves have become rare, and some experts question their usefulness.
“There’s a variety of exclusive agreements for Google to be the default search engine, and that has foreclosed competitors from offering their products instead,” says attorney Charlotte Slaiman.
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Alcoa splits itself in two

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Sep 28, 2015
The move could make its stock more appealing to commodity-averse investors.
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Explaining the stock split: Some financial gymnastics

by Paddy Hirsch
Jun 24, 2014
In the end, stock splits are all about making shares more appealing to investors.
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