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It was created by Charles Dow, co-founder of both The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones & Company, and named after him and his business associate, statistician Edward Jones. The index is maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices, an entity majority-owned by S&P Global. Its components are selected by a committee.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Stocks closed broadly higher Friday, helped by another slate of solid second-quarter earnings and relief over the results of European bank stress tests. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average ...
The stock market's September to remember ended with moderate losses Thursday as traders engaged in a little end-of-quarter profit-taking despite some encouraging economic news. Still, the Dow ...
1982–2000: Bull market. The Dow experiences its most spectacular rise in history. From a meager 776.92 on August 12, 1982, the index grows 1,409% to close at 11,722.98 by January 14, 2000, without any major reversals except for a brief but severe downturn in Black Monday, 1987, which includes the largest daily percentage loss in Dow history.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is within an eyelash, a tenth of a percentage point or so, of being back to where it began the 2010 trading year, closing July 23 at 10,424.62.