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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 ...
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 Dow Jones Industrial Average, also known as the Dow, is one of the most popular stock market indexes, along with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite.The Dow tracks the stock performance of 30 ...
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 ...
Meanwhile, Nvidia's largest-ever stock split (10-for-1) in June paved the way for it to become one of the 30 components in the Dow. Without this split, Nvidia would be pushing close to $1,400 per ...
Add in the dividends - all 30 Dow stocks are dividend payers - and the total return comes to a whopping 85%. The blue-chip average, trading at record levels, has 30,000 in its sights.
This is the category for the 30 current components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Companies formerly included in the DJIA are categorized in the category "Former components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
The worst day was Sept. 29, 2008, when the Dow lost what was then a record 778 points after Congress rejected a $700 billion bank bailout. The bailout was later approved. Dow 15,000: May 7, 2013.