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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.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow (/ ˈ d aʊ /), is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States. The DJIA is one of the oldest and most commonly followed equity indexes.
Infamous stock market crash that represented the greatest one-day percentage decline in U.S. stock market history, culminating in a bear market after a more than 20% plunge in the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average. Among the primary causes of the chaos were program trading and illiquidity, both of which fueled the vicious decline for the ...
Stocks are rallying today as blue-chip indexes finally surpass their 2007 records. As of 2:50 p.m. EST, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up by 135 points, or 0.95%. As my colleague Alex ...
1930 - Dow Jones becomes incorporated and the comma in the name is dropped. March 12, 1956 - The Dow closes at 500.24, the first close above 500. November 14, 1972 - The Dow closes at 1,003.16 ...
Oct. 9, 2007: The Dow reaches its peak of 14,164.53 points, up 0.9%. Investors ignore the warnings of low corporate-earnings growth and instead focus on the latest Fed meeting notes, which ...
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.
Index Name 1-Month 3-Month YTD 2010 1-Year 3-Year 5-Year 10-Year Since Inception* Dow Jones-UBS Commodity IndexSM 2.06 4.45 4.45 16.83 28.49 -5.20 2.57 7.07 6.24 Data calculated as of March 31, 2011. Index performance data prior to initial calculation dates are based on back-testing. Initial calculation dates for the indexes listed are as ...