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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.
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.
1915–1919: Bull market. After hitting a seven-year low in late 1914, the Dow rises 125% over the next five years, reaching a new high of 119.62 on November 3, 1919. [4] 1919–1921: Bear market. The Dow loses 46.6% of its value in just over 21 months, before reaching a low of 63.90 on August 24, 1921. [5] 1921–1929: Bull market.
It takes 25 years for the Dow to regain its September 1929 high of 381 points. 1930 - Dow Jones becomes incorporated and the comma in the name is dropped. March 12, 1956 - The Dow closes at 500.24 ...
Rising over 13% in 2024, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lagged the S&P 500, which soared 23%. While Boeing dragged the index down last year, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) took up the slack and was the ...
The U.S. stock market was on fire in the 2010s, and Dow Jones Industrial Average components were certainly in on the fun. The SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSE: DIA ) is up 176.1% in the ...
Six years after its previous high in 2007, the Dow finally closed at a new record high on March 5, 2013. [65] It continued rising for the next several years past 17,000 points until a brief 2015–2016 stock market selloff in the second half of 2015. [ 66 ]
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.