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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow (/ ˈ d aʊ /), is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States. The DJIA is one of the oldest and most commonly followed equity indexes.
Dow index funds might invest in some or all of the 30 companies that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average. You get exposure to some of the largest and highest-quality stocks in the U.S.
MSCI ACWI Index (Developed and EM, all cap stocks) S&P Global 100; S&P Global 1200; The Global Dow – Global version of the Dow Jones Industrial Average; Dow Jones Global Titans 50; FTSE All-World index series; OTCM QX ADR 30 Index
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, an American stock index composed of 30 large companies, has changed its components 59 times since its inception, on May 26, 1896. [1] As this is a historical listing, the names here are the full legal name of the corporation on that date, with abbreviations and punctuation according to the corporation's own usage.
The 30-stock index rose 243.63 points, or 0.59%, for a fresh record close of 41,335.05. Gains in Goldman Sachs , Intel and Visa helped lift the blue-chip average to a new high.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is one of several stock market indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company founder Charles Dow. Dow compiled the index as a way to gauge the performance of the industrial component of America's stock markets. It is the second oldest continuing U.S. market index.
S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC is a joint venture between S&P Global, the CME Group, and News Corp that was announced in 2011 and later launched in 2012. It produces, maintains, licenses, and markets stock market indices as benchmarks and as the basis of investable products, such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs), mutual funds, and structured products.
In 2019 if a market basket price is 55 and the basket were to double the following year, in 2020, then the index would rise to 200. This is done by performing a simple calculation: Dividing the new year market basket price by the reference year's (otherwise known as the base year) price, and subsequently multiplying the quotient by 100.