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[25] That month, September 2008, would see record drops in the Dow, including a 778-point drop to 10,365.45 that was the worst since Black Monday of the 1987 stock market crash [26] and was followed by a loss of thousands of points over the next two months, standing at 8,046 on November 17 and including a 9% plunge in the S&P on December 1 ...
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. [ 46 ] The Dow experienced a long bull run from 1920 to late 1929 when it rose from 73 to 381 points. [ 47 ]
Some sources (including the file Highlights/Lowlights of The Dow on the Dow Jones website) show a loss of −24.39% (from 71.42 to 54.00) on December 12, 1914, placing that day atop the list of largest percentage losses.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its worst intra-day point loss, dropping nearly 1,000 points before partially recovering. [24] August 2011 stock markets fall: 1 Aug 2011 USA: S&P 500 entered a short-lived bear market between 2 May 2011 (intraday high: 1,370.58) and 4 October 2011 (intraday low: 1,074.77), a decline of 21.58%. The ...
Stocks shrugged off instability in Egypt to rally to a two-and-a-half year high Tuesday, boosted by encouraging economic data and better-than-expected corporate earnings. The blue-chip Dow Jones ...
The market's three major indexes were all up today, each hitting its highest closing value in quite some time: Change Ending Value Highest Close Since... Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX: ^DJI ...
Oct. 13, 2008: Details of the new TARP and simultaneous news of bailout programs in 16 European nations send the Dow to its largest one-day point gain in its history. The Dow closes at 9,387.61 ...
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.