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WHERE WILL THE DOW GO?

People considering those who forecasted for Dow to break the 20000 threshold to be the crazy, when the index was trading at 10000:

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/15/the-man-who-called-for-dow-20000-six-years-ago-now-sees-this-ahead.html

The Dow is actually breaking one record after the other, and all of these are on top of tense international relations for the USA.

With that in mind I challenge you to provide a FORECAST of where Dow will be on the last trading day of 2017?

You have to write a report that makes two approaches to this: a) one based on your own calculations and data and information you will gather from wherever you see appropriate (20% of the marks), and b) one based on secondary forecasts and views from various experts and think-tanks…….! (20% of the marks).

You final forecast should be a weighted average of the two aforementioned forecasts and I expect a good rationale on how you decide on those weights. (20% of the marks).

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You are expected to write this report to read, look and feel like a FT/Business Week/Economist article (40% of the marks).

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