Shares of General Electric were down about 3% in early Monday trade, representing the biggest weight on the Dow industrials, but Goldman’s stock exacted the biggest point toll on the price-weighted gauge. Shares of GE were cutting only about 5 points from the Dow Jones Industrial Average , off 75 cents, or 3.5%. A $1 move in anyone of the Dow’s components equates to a 6.89-point swing in the average. By comparison, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. shares were down 0.8% but off more than $2.00, translating to a point decline of about 14 points. Most recently, the Dow was off 34 points, or 0.1%, at 23,388, the S&P 500 index was down 0.2% at 2,577, while the Nasdaq Composite Index was down about 0.3% at 6,734.
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