GM to be replaced on the Dow?

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GM, a member of the Dow since 1915, is facing the removal of its name from the Dow Jones industrial average. If that happened, what company would replace GM in the Dow, arguably the most widely followed — if not the most comprehensive — gauge of the U.S. stock market?

Business news outlet CNBC is running a poll on its website today with eight companies to choose from: financial companies Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs; online retailer Amazon.com; tech giants Apple, Google and Cisco Systems; oil company ConocoPhillips; and pharmaceutical firm Abbott Labs. As of noon PDT, Apple was comfortably in the lead with 21% of the vote; Abbott was second with 15% and ConocoPhillips was last with 10%.

Read the entire article by Martin Zimmerman in Money and Co. today.