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The following is a list of the milestone closing levels of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Legend: 1-point increments are used up to the 20-point level, 2-point increments up to the 50-point level, 5-point increments up to the 100-point level, 10-point increments up to the 500-point level, 20-point increments up to the 1,000-point level,
The largest point drop in history occurred on March 16, 2020, when concerns over the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic engulfed the market, dropping the Dow Jones Industrial Average 2,997 points. The largest point gain (+2,113) occurred on March 24, 2020.
The Dow has fallen by around 1,000 points over the last three days alone — and the negative momentum didn’t let up Thursday. The Dow closed 331 points lower, or 0.9%.
After nearly six months of extreme volatility during which the Dow experienced its largest one-day point loss, largest daily point gain, and largest intraday range (of more than 1,000 points) at the time, the index closed at a new 12-year low of 6,547.05 on March 9, 2009, [62] its lowest close since April 1997. The Dow had lost 20% of its value ...
The Nasdaq composite fell 99.30 points, or 0.6%, to 16,920.58. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 1.1% and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.6% after setting its latest all-time high. American ...
For the week, the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose more than 4.5%, while the Nasdaq Composite rose nearly 6%. In the week ahead, a fresh reading on inflation and retail sales will ...
The average was created on July 3, 1884 by Charles Dow, co-founder of Dow Jones & Company, as part of the Customer's Afternoon Letter. From its inception (until May 26, 1896), the Dow Jones Transportation Average consisted of eleven transportation-related companies: nine railroads and two non-rail companies (Western Union and Pacific Mail).
The Dow Jones Industrial Average of big U.S. companies closed down 1,033 points or 2.6 percent. The S&P 500 index finished 3 percent down, and the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite lost 3.4 ...