Commentary
In 2020, I wrote about “The Fall of Mighty Exxon.” The “fall” referred to Exxon’s stock having been dropped from the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) after a 92-year stretch of being a mainstay of that index. In retrospect, just two-and-a-half years later, hindsight indicates that dropping Exxon from the Dow may have been premature—an overreaction to the economic weirdness and distortions of the COVID lockdown.
