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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 can go years without changes being made. Today begins a new era for this iconic index. ... Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have ...
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 ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is chock-full of industry-leading blue chip stocks-- many of which pay dividends. But the Dow tends to underperform the S&P 500 during growth-driven rallies when ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX: ^DJI) started out by tracking the leading U.S. industrial companies of the late 19th century. It has widened its scope beyond traditional heavy industries ...
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).