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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 average closed at 2,999.75 on Monday, July 16, 1990, and closed unchanged the following day; [17] however, it would take until April 17 of the next year for the Dow to finally close above 3,000. 12 The Dow first exceeded 4,000 during the trading day on Monday, January 31, 1994, but dropped back before closing that day. It would take just ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its worst intra-day point loss, dropping nearly 1,000 points before partially recovering. [24] August 2011 stock markets fall: 1 Aug 2011 USA: S&P 500 entered a short-lived bear market between 2 May 2011 (intraday high: 1,370.58) and 4 October 2011 (intraday low: 1,074.77), a decline of 21.58%. The ...
January 7, 2016 - The Dow drops 5% in its first four days of the year, the worst four-day percentage loss to start a year on record. November 22, 2016 - The Dow closes at 19,023.87, the first ...
Dow Jones begins to recover in November 1987. NYSE institutes rule regarding trading curbs in 1988. Black Monday (also known as Black Tuesday in some parts of the world due to time zone differences) was a global, severe and largely unexpected [ 1 ] stock market crash on Monday, October 19, 1987.
The index is up 6.7% in just a little more than a month and a half, after finishing the previous 12 months up just 7.26%. Only one of the Dow's 30 components is in the red for The Dow, Year to Date
The Dow Jones Industrial Average's (INDEX: ^DJI) drop today was a fitting end to a horrible month in which the blue-chip index fell 6.2%, good for its worst month in exactly two years. Today's ...
After nearly six months of extreme volatility during which the Dow experienced its largest one-day point loss, largest daily point gain, and largest intraday range (of more than 1,000 points) at the time, the index closed at a new 12-year low of 6,547.05 on March 9, 2009, [61] its lowest close since April 1997. The Dow had lost 20% of its value ...