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5 This was the Dow's close at the peak of the 1920s bull market on Tuesday, September 3, 1929, before the stock market crash. This level would not be seen again until Tuesday, November 23, 1954, more than 25 years later. 6 This was the Dow's close at the peak of March 10, 1937. 7 This was the Dow's close at the peak on February 9, 1966.
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 not those before, and it represents the only discontinuity in the index's history rather than an actual loss. [3] [4]
The Dow's performance remained unchanged from the closing value of the previous decade, adding only 8.26%, from 99.05 at the beginning of 1910, to a level of 107.23 at the end of 1919. [ 45 ] The Dow experienced a long bull run from 1920 to late 1929 when it rose from 73 to 381 points. [ 46 ]
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 ...
The Dow suffers the worst one-day point loss in its history as more than $1.2 trillion in market value vanishes from American exchanges. The Dow closes at 10,365.45, down 7%.
The average life expectancy for U.S. males was 46.9 years.Breaking 100: It took the Dow just shy of 10 years from its inception in 1896 to hit the 100 mark for the first time.The index's creator ...
Description: Same as en:Image:DJIA historical graph.svg, except logarithmic rather than linear.Log 10 applied to all values.. From May, 1896 - Dec, 1900: monthly closings; Source:
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 ...