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For well over a century, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) has served as a barometer that gauges the health of the U.S. stock market. When the Dow Jones was officially incepted on ...
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq rose 0.57% and 0.63%, respectively, while the Dow Jones increased by over 100 points. The 10-year Treasury yield rose three basis points to 4.298%. The US dollar jumped ...
The Dow jumped more than 450 points and the S&P 500 inched up. A decline in some mega-cap tech names weighed on the Nasdaq. Stock market today: Dow soars 461 points while Nasdaq wavers as tech ...
First calculated on May 26, 1896, [2] the index is the second-oldest among U.S. market indices, after the Dow Jones Transportation Average. It was created by Charles Dow, co-founder of both The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones & Company, and named after him and his business associate, statistician Edward Jones.
The market responded to the outlook for more easing fro the central bank. According to the CME FedWatch Tool, markets expect the Fed funds rate to fall to below 3% by the end of 2025, from 4.83% ...
The index was developed by Stephen Bernard and Vincent Cignarella, at the time members of the news team for Dow Jones, the Wall Street Journal and DJ FX Trader, a joint product of Dow Jones & Co. [4] and The Wall Street Journal. Bernard and Cignarella discussed the index launch on WSJ.com's Markets Hub. [5]
(The intraday high may not be the same as the opening price; for instance, in the 2010 flash crash, the market reached an intraday high, higher than the opening price.) [49] This is distinguished from an intraday point drop or gain, which is the difference between the opening price and the intraday low or high.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 123 points, or 0.3%, to its own record set the day before, while the Nasdaq composite gained 0.6% as Microsoft and Big Tech led the way.