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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 ...
14 This was the Dow's close at the peak on January 14, 2000, before the dot-com crash. 15 This was the Dow's close at the peak on October 9, 2007, before the financial crisis of 2007–2008. 16 The Dow first traded above 15,000 on Friday, May 3, 2013, but dropped back before closing that day, it then closed above 15,000 on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 ...
The largest one-day percentage gain in the index happened in the depths of the 1930s bear market on March 15, 1933, when the Dow gained 15.34% to close at 62.10. However, as a whole throughout the Great Depression, the Dow posted some of its worst performances, for a negative return during most of the 1930s for new and old stock market investors.
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'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 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 ...
Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 508 points (22.6 percent), the largest one-day drop by percentage in the index's history. Federal Reserve provides market liquidity to meet unprecedented demands for credit. Dow Jones begins to recover in November 1987. NYSE institutes rule regarding trading curbs in 1988.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed lower by 267 points on Tuesday, or 0.6%, down for its ninth-straight day. ... closing with a decline of about 0.39%.