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The Dow's losses amount to roughly 3%, or more than 1,500 points, in the past nine trading sessions. The index has fallen from a record close of 45,014 on Dec. 4 to 43,499 as of Tuesday's close.
The runup in small cap stocks has been sizzling, with the Russell 2000 on track for its best month ever. That in particular is a sign, say some analysts, that the underlying economic conditions ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average - that group of 30 blue-chip behemoths with long track records of outperformance - is trailing the other major indexes by a wide margin this year.But the Dow's 30 ...
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.
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.
A $1 change in any of the Dow’s 30 stocks moves the Dow by 1 divided by the divisor. Or, for our purposes, 6.59 points. At $470.83 a share, UnitedHealth is the Dow’s highest-priced stock.
Add in the dividends - all 30 Dow stocks are dividend payers - and the total return comes to a whopping 85%. The blue-chip average, trading at record levels, has 30,000 in its sights.
The BXD Index is designed to show the hypothetical performance of a strategy in which an investor buys a portfolio of the 30 stocks in the DJIA, and also sells (or writes) covered call options on the DJIA Index.