Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down nearly half a percent at the close, while the Nasdaq Composite Index, which contains more technology stocks, cut early losses to close just 0.2% lower ...
The Dow rose just 15 points to narrowly break a 10-day losing streak, its worst in 50 years. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq dipped again, with attention turning to Friday's PCE report.
The S&P 500 rose 0.6% while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.4%. Friday was an abbreviated trading day, with stocks closing at 1 p.m. ET and the bond market an hour later.
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.
For well over a century, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) has served as a barometer that gauges the health of the U.S. stock market.. When the Dow Jones was officially incepted ...
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.
US stocks declined on Tuesday, plunging the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its first nine-day losing streak since 1978. The index shed over 250, trailed by a loss of 0.43% and 0.51% for the S&P ...
On 12 March 2020 the Dow Jones lost six times more points (2352.60) in a single day than there were points in the Dow Jones in 1929 before the crash (381.17) and more points than there were before the crash in 1987 (2246.17). All of the largest point-moves are of course biased toward the present.