How many look at the finance page? how many would like to see oil and gas listed?

Question

there are quite a lot of folks to whom the price of gas and oil is far more important than the dow or nasdaq.

even those for whom the dow and nasdaq are more important, we know that energy is the biggest driver today.

maybe we ought to send in suggestions / requests?

what say you?

Answer 1

There are many indexes.  The Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500. are known as headline indexes.  Because thats what the media reports most of often.  The S&P 500 is the most significant of the three for the overall market.  Oil is reported just as often in the media, especially now with prices so high.  Although oil and natural gas are not traded on the stock market, they are traded on New York Mercantile Exchange, the prices are easily found.

Answer 2

Oil is listed in the Financial Pages and has been for decades

Send a suggestion to whom, many papers already print oil prices

Based on the dollar amount of investments, the DOW along with other equity indexes are far more important than oil, and are followed by more people,

Most professional investors/traders follow the DOW and the indexes more so than oil.

At the present time, oil has been getting alot of media hype, not saying it's not important but the media is trying to make news rather than report it.