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The Dow enters two long downturns in 1970 and 1974; during the latter, it falls 45% to the bottom of a 20-year range. Three short-lived cyclical bull markets occurred during this period, each of which lasted no more than two years. 1982–2000: Bull market. The Dow experiences its most spectacular rise in history.
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.
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.
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 ...
This article is part of a recurring series on Wall Street's storied past. All events presented here took place on one or more of the years following the 1896 creation of the Dow Jones Industrial ...
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 largest point drop in history occurred on March 16, 2020, when concerns over the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic engulfed the market, dropping the Dow Jones Industrial Average 2,997 points. The largest point gain (+2,113) occurred on March 24, 2020.
As the Dow has gotten steadily higher over the last several decades, larger point drops translate into smaller percentage drops. Here are the biggest one-day point drops in the Dow's history Skip ...