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Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average put on 0.3%, setting the blue-chip index up to build on its record close above 37,000 on Wednesday. S&P 500 futures were up 0.3%, while contracts on the ...
The chart of the day. What we're watching. What we're reading. Economic data releases and earnings. With its 0.04% gain Thursday, the Dow finally broke its 10-day losing streak, the worst since ...
The multiplier for the Dow Jones is 5, essentially meaning that Dow Futures are working on 5-1 leverage. If the Dow Futures are trading at 10,000, a single futures contract would have a market value of $50,000. For every 1 point the Dow Jones Industrial Average fluctuates, the Dow Futures contract will increase or decrease $5.
Here's where US indexes stood at the 4:00 p.m. closing bell on Friday: S&P 500 : 5,648.26, up 1.01% Dow Jones Industrial Average : 41,563.08, up 0.55% (+228.03 points)
Some sources (including the file Highlights/Lowlights of The Dow on the Dow Jones website) show a loss of −24.39% (from 71.42 to 54.00) on December 12, 1914, placing that day atop the list of largest percentage losses.
2 This was the Dow's close at the peak on June 4, 1890. 3 This was the Dow's close at the peak on January 19, 1906. 4 This was the Dow's close at the peak on November 3, 1919. 5 This was the Dow's close at the peak of the 1920s bull market on Tuesday, September 3, 1929 before the stock market crash. This level would not be seen again until ...
The Dow closed 522 points, or 1.3%, higher, reaching a new record after passing the 42,000 level for the first time. The S&P 500 rose 1.7%, topping 5,700 for the first time and also closing at a ...
The company was conceived as DBC Online by Data Broadcasting Corporation in the fall of 1995. [2] The marketwatch.com domain name was registered on July 30, 1997. [3] The website launched on October 30, 1997, as a 50/50 joint venture between DBC and CBS News, then run by Larry Kramer [2] and co-founder and chairman, Derek Reisfield. [4]