article_snippet: Apple has finally been accepted to join America’s oldest and most prestigious stock index, the Dow Jones industrial average.
article_snippet: There are only 30 companies listed on the Dow Jones - a price-weighted average of the biggest stocks  - but for a long time Apple was excluded from the pile because Apple stock price was too high and there was worry
article_snippet: Apple has finally been accepted to join America’s oldest and most prestigious stock index, the Dow Jones industrial average .
article_snippet: David Blitzer, managing director and chairman of the index committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices, said there was no need to have two big telecom companies in the equation.
article_snippet: Verizon, which has a bigger stock price and larger market value, is in the Dow too.
highlights_snippet: There are only 30 companies listed on the Dow Jones - a price-weighted average of the biggest stocks .
  