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However, as a whole throughout the Great Depression, the Dow posted some of its worst performances, for a negative return during most of the 1930s for new and old stock market investors. For the decade, the Dow Jones average was down from 248.48 at the beginning of 1930, to a stable level of 150.24 at the end of 1939, a loss of about 40%. [49]
The Dow closed at 9,997.62 on Thursday, March 18, 1999. [18] It would take nearly two weeks to close above 10,000 on Monday, March 29, 1999. 14 This was the Dow's close at the peak on January 14, 2000, before the dot-com crash. 15 This was the Dow's close at the peak on October 9, 2007, before the financial crisis of 2007–2008.
The New York Stock Exchange reopened that day following a nearly four-and-a-half-month closure since July 30, 1914, and the Dow in fact rose 4.4% that day (from 71.42 to 74.56). 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 ...
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 15-year return of 362% (10.7% annually) The Dow Jones Industrial Average tracks 30 U.S. companies. The index is weighted by share price, such that companies with more ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed lower by 267 points on Tuesday, or 0.6%, down for its ninth-straight day.
Not only did the Dow Jones Industrial Average set a new intraday record today, but it ended at all-time highs and two-thirds of its components closed in the black. Paradoxically, expectations for ...
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 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%.