The company said the change last fall left financials underrepresented in the Dow because the government has, through bailout money, become a major Citigroup shareholder and reduced its role as a publicly held company. "We were reluctant to remove Citigroup at the height of the financial frenzy, but it is clear that the bank is in the midst of a substantial restructuring which will see the government with a large and ongoing stake," Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Robert Thomson said in a statement. Dow Jones added Cisco "because its communications and computer-networking products are vital to an economy and culture still adapting to the Information Age – just as automobiles were essential to America in the 20th century," Thomson said.