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The Dow Jones Industrial Average daily closing value plotted on a log-10 scale Despite the emerging COVID-19 pandemic , the Dow continued its bull run from the previous decade before peaking at 29,551.42 on February 12, 2020 (29,568.57 intraday on the same day).
The Dow's losses amount to roughly 3%, or more than 1,500 points, in the past nine trading sessions. The index has fallen from a record close of 45,014 on Dec. 4 to 43,499 as of Tuesday's close.
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 S&P 500 lost approximately 50% of its value, but the duration of this bear market was just below average. The bear market was confirmed in June 2008 when the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) had fallen 20% from its October 11, 2007 high.
Until the past few weeks, stocks continued to climb to records as bond prices fell. Recently the S&P 500 earnings yield fell below the 10-year Treasury yield to a degree not seen since 2002.
You can blame today's big drop in the Dow Jones Industrials (INDEX: ^DJI) -- at 160 points and counting as of 1:45 p.m. EDT -- on several things, ranging from European fears and the Federal ...
By the mid 1970s Telerate had a monopoly on the information on the price of U.S. treasury bonds, and in 1977 the company made a profit of $1 million. Cantor Fitzgerald increased its stake to 70%. That same year Telerate entered into an alliance with Associated Press and the Dow Jones & Company to create a joint venture called AP-Dow Jones.
The Dow continues upward to surpass its prior all-time record on March 5, 2013, and, by the end of 2013, sets a new all-time inflation-adjusted high for the first time since the end of 1999. [13] For the remainder of the decade, Dow Jones, NASDAQ, and S&P 500 faced some corrections that nearly ended the bull run, [ 14 ] but ultimately towered ...