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1982–2000: Bull market. The Dow experiences its most spectacular rise in history. From a meager 776.92 on August 12, 1982, the index grows 1,409% to close at 11,722.98 by January 14, 2000, without any major reversals except for a brief but severe downturn in Black Monday, 1987, which includes the largest daily percentage loss in Dow history.
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 not those before, and it represents the only discontinuity in the index's history rather than an actual loss. [3] [4]
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. The index is maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices, an entity majority-owned by S&P Global. Its components are selected by a committee.
March 16, 2020 - The Dow records its worst one-day point drop in history, 2,997.1 points, and its worst performance on a percentage basis since October 19, 1987, also known as “Black Monday.”
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 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.
NEW YORK (AP) — Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at a record high even as losses for Big Tech pull the S&P 500 and Nasdaq lower. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement.
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: