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On September 30, 2010, after almost five months of investigations led by Gregg E. Berman, [41] [42] the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a joint report titled "Findings Regarding the Market Events of May 6, 2010" identifying the sequence of events leading to the flash crash ...
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.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has scored a 49% return to investors over the last three years, on a dividend-adjusted basis. But that doesn't mean that all 30 of the current members toed the ...
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 largest point drop in history occurred on March 16, 2020, when concerns over the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic engulfed the market, dropping the Dow Jones Industrial Average 2,997 points. The largest point gain (+2,113) occurred on March 24, 2020.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average promptly finished Wednesday's session down more than 1,100 points. It rallied slightly on Thursday, but the selling pressure renewed on Friday.
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 ...
September 21, 2001 - After the first full week of trading post 9/11, the Dow falls more than 1,300 points, or about 14%. October 19, 2006 - The Dow closes at 12,011.73, the first close above 12,000.