Advertisement Continue reading the main storyYet Apple is the most valuable company in the entire stock market; its market capitalization is more than $800 billion. Boeing Lifts the Dow Boeing alone accounted for 24 percent of the entire rise in the Dow Jones industrial average for the year. “No one would build a stock market index that way today,” Professor Siegel said. Vanguard uses that index as the benchmark for its Total Stock Market Index Fund. They are not really talking about the stock market.

Source: New York Times August 12, 2017 10:52 UTC