RENEE MONTAGNE, Host: NPR's business news starts with a new lineup for the Dow Jones Industrial Average.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, Host: The automaker will be replaced by Cisco, which makes computer networking gear. Travelers, the property and casualty insurer and once a division of Citigroup will replace the banking giant. The changes take place next Monday.
The stock market's best-known barometer is adding Cisco Systems Inc. and Travelers Companies Inc. and dropping General Motors Corp. and Citigroup Inc. The changes were announced Monday as GM entered bankruptcy protection. The government has, through bailout money, become a major Citigroup shareholder and reduced its role as a publicly held company.