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Description: Same as en:Image:DJIA historical graph.svg, except logarithmic rather than linear.Log 10 applied to all values.. From May, 1896 - Dec, 1900: monthly closings; Source:
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 .
Interesting to note that the amount of time it took the Dow to go from its first close above 11,000, to its first close above 12,000 - which was about 7 1/2 years - was the longest time it took the Dow to make one of these 1000pt jumps since the Dow made the first 1000pt jump - from 1000 to 2000, which took from 1972-1987 (15 years).
The average life expectancy for U.S. males was 46.9 years.Breaking 100: It took the Dow just shy of 10 years from its inception in 1896 to hit the 100 mark for the first time.The index's creator ...
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 Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) is having a strong year. Technically, Nvidia is the top-performing stock in the Dow this year, at a nearly 190% return, driven by artificial ...
The National Bureau of Economic Research declared the end of this recession over a year after the end date. [79] The Dow Jones Industrial Average finally reached its lowest point on March 9, 2009. [80] COVID-19 recession: February 2020 – April 2020 [81] [82] [83] 2 months 10 years 8 months 14.7% (April 2020) [84] −19.2% [85]
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 ...