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The S&P 500 peaked for the year at 4,796 on its January 3, 2022 close, before declining 25% to its low for the year in October 2022. [11] [12] In the first 6 months of 2022, the S&P 500 fell 21%, the worst 6-month start to a year since 1970. [13] [14] On September 13, 2022, the S&P 500 declined by 4.32% in its largest single-day drop since June ...
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 benchmark S&P 500 plunged 1.7%, testing a fresh 2022 low. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 486 points, or 1.6%, briefly falling into bear market territory at one point during the session ...
The largest point drop in history occurred on March 16, 2020, when concerns over the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic engulfed the market, dropping the Dow Jones Industrial Average 2,997 points. The largest point gain (+2,113) occurred on March 24, 2020.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average mounted a big comeback from its 2022 low as the Bank of England said it would buy bonds to stabilize its financial markets.
We look at the performance of all 30 Dow Jones stocks in 2020, including those that led the average's march to new heights ... and those that weighed it down.
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 Dow Jones Industrial Average was aiming to break a 10-day losing streak, its worst since 1974. The index was up over 300 points at the open after it shed 1,123 points in Wednesday's session.