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The New York Stock Exchange reopened that day following a nearly four-and-a-half-month closure since July 30, 1914, and the Dow in fact rose 4.4% that day (from 71.42 to 74.56). However, the apparent decline was due to a later 1916 revision of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which retroactively adjusted the values following the closure but ...
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'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.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Compare to the list of largest daily changes in the Dow Jones Industrial ... 1929-10-30 22.99 +2.56 +12.53 ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed lower by 267 points on Tuesday, or 0.6%, down for its ninth-straight day. ... There hasn’t been a losing streak of 10 days or more since an 11-day slump ...
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 ...
6 This was the Dow's close at the peak of March 10, 1937. 7 This was the Dow's close at the peak on February 9, 1966. 8 The Dow first exceeded 1,000 during the trading day on Tuesday, January 18, 1966, but dropped back before closing that day. It would take almost seven years before it finally closed above 1,000 for the first time on Tuesday ...
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 ...