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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.
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.
1990 2,633.66: −119.54: ... still in operation, removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average ... the Dow lost 9.2% intra-day and regained nearly all of it within a ...
October 19, 1987 - The Dow closes down 508 points, at the time the biggest one-day drop ever in the Dow’s history. November 21, 1995 - The Dow closes at 5,023.55, the first close above 5,000.
Dow Inc. remained in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which technically gave DuPont (via the split) a continuous presence in the index since 1935. This officially comes to an end today.
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 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'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.