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Stocktwits is a social media platform designed for sharing ideas between investors, traders, and entrepreneurs. [1] Founded in 2008 by Howard Lindzon and Soren McBeth, it introduced the use of the cashtag, a way to group discussions around a stock symbol preceded by a dollar sign. [2]
The factor is changed whenever a constituent company undergoes a stock split so that the value of the index is unaffected by the stock split. First calculated on May 26, 1896, [2] the index is the second-oldest among U.S. market indices, after the Dow Jones Transportation Average.
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 ...
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 Jones Industrial Average rose nearly 500 points, giving back some of its intraday gains after being up over 800 points. The Nasdaq Composite and the S&P 500 were up over 1%.
Stock market news live updates: Stocks fall to end 4-day winning streak ... Dow futures : -77 points (-0.22%) to 35,113.00. ... Here's where the major stock index futures opened Tuesday evening:
The Dow Jones Composite Average is the stock market index composed of 65 prominent companies traded on both exchanges, maintained and tracked by S&P Dow Jones Indices.The average's components include every stock from the Dow Jones Industrial Average (30 components), the Dow Jones Transportation Average (20), and the Dow Jones Utility Average (15).
The S&P 500 and technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite each climbed 1.4%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped nearly 400 points, or about 1.2%. The S&P 500 closed above 4,000 for the first ...