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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 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 ...
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 ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average All events presented here took place on one or more of the years following the 1896 creation of the Dow Jones Industrial Index. This Day in Dow History: Before the ...
Year to date, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is crushing it. 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 ...
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 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 ...