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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.
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 first four tables show only the largest one-day changes between a given day's close and the close of the previous trading day, [1] [2] not the largest changes during the trading day (i.e. intraday changes).
The largest single-day point decline for the Dow occurred on March 16, 2020 when the index fell 2,997 points, or 12.9 percent. ... in July 1932 with the Dow closing at 41.22, down 89 percent from ...
The Dow isn’t the only index to use this method. Japan’s Nikkei 225 is also price-weighted instead of employing the market capitalization method that uses the overall value of the components ...
Despite COVID- induced uncertainties, Microsoft (MSFT), Goldman Sachs (GS), NIKE (NKE), Walmart (WMT) and Caterpillar (CAT) scale the Dow index in 2020 and are likely to outshine their rivals in ...
The Dow soared from 2,753 to 8,000 between January 1990 to July 1997. [43] In October 1997, the events surrounding the 1997 Asian financial crisis plunged the Dow into a 554-point loss to a close of 7,161.15; a retrenchment of 7.18% in what became known as the October 27, 1997 mini-crash.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed lower by 267 points on Tuesday, or 0.6%, down for its ninth-straight day. ... The S&P 500 was also down Tuesday, closing with a decline of about 0.39%.