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11 The Dow reached an intraday high above 3,000 for the first time on Friday, July 13, 1990, before falling back below by the close. 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.
The first four tables show only the largest one-day changes between a given day's close and the close of the previous trading day, [1] [2] not the largest changes during the trading day (i.e. intraday changes).
The average was created on July 3, 1884 by Charles Dow, co-founder of Dow Jones & Company, as part of the Customer's Afternoon Letter. From its inception (until May 26, 1896), the Dow Jones Transportation Average consisted of eleven transportation-related companies: nine railroads and two non-rail companies (Western Union and Pacific Mail).
The largest single-day percentage declines for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average both occurred on Oct. 19, 1987 with the S&P 500 falling by 20.5 percent and the Dow falling by 22.6 percent.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX: ^DJI) finally rose above 1,000 points on Oct. 11, 1982 to close at 1012.79. The index had danced around The Dow Breaks 2 Bears in 1 Day
The Dow fell 14.3% after the September 11 attacks. Exchanges were closed from September 12 through September 16, 2001. On September 17, 2001, the first day of trading after the September 11 attacks on the United States, the Dow fell 7.1%. However, the Dow began an upward trend shortly after the attacks, and regained all lost ground to close ...
The Dow's final closing price of 6,547.05 was 54% lower than an all-time high of 14,164.53 set a year and a half earlier. The S&P 500, which had peaked on the same day as the Dow in 2007, reached ...
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).