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The ten components with the largest dividend yields are commonly referred to as the Dogs of the Dow. As with all stock prices, the prices of the constituent stocks and consequently the value of the index itself are affected by the performance of the respective companies as well as macroeconomic factors. Dow Jones Industrial Average 1970–2022
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.
2 This was the Dow's close at the peak on June 4, 1890. 3 This was the Dow's close at the peak on January 19, 1906. 4 This was the Dow's close at the peak on November 3, 1919. 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 ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up about 0.3%, or more than 100 points higher, while the benchmark S&P 500 hugged the flatline. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite ( ^IXIC ) lagged, falling ...
US stocks rose Friday, with the Dow Jones closing at a record high for the second day in a row. The S&P 500 and the Dow achieved a four-month win streak in August amid renewed hopes for a soft ...
The Dow rose just 15 points to narrowly break a 10-day losing streak, its worst in 50 years. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq dipped again, with attention turning to Friday's PCE report.
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.
Unlike the market cap-weighted S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite, where larger companies exert more influence on these respective indexes, the Dow is a share price-weighted index. Market cap is ...