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The Dow's performance remained unchanged from the closing value of the previous decade, adding only 8.26%, from 99.05 at the beginning of 1910, to a level of 107.23 at the end of 1919. [ 45 ] The Dow experienced a long bull run from 1920 to late 1929 when it rose from 73 to 381 points. [ 46 ]
On May 6, 2010, U.S. stock markets opened and the Dow was down, and trended that way for most of the day on worries about the debt crisis in Greece. At 2:42 p.m., with the Dow down more than 300 points for the day, the equity market began to fall rapidly, dropping an additional 600 points in 5 minutes for a loss of nearly 1,000 points for the ...
The Dow Jones fell 588 points during a two-day period, 1,300 points from 18 to 21 August. On Monday, 24 August, world stock markets were down substantially, wiping out all gains made in 2015, with interlinked drops in commodities such as oil, which hit a six-year price low , copper, and most Asian currencies – with exception of the Japanese ...
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.
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 Dow fell nearly 1,000 points at one point during afternoon trading Thursday amid anxiety that European debt woes could derail the nascent global economic recovery. Risk-averse traders piled ...
[25] That month, September 2008, would see record drops in the Dow, including a 778-point drop to 10,365.45 that was the worst since Black Monday of the 1987 stock market crash [26] and was followed by a loss of thousands of points over the next two months, standing at 8,046 on November 17 and including a 9% plunge in the S&P on December 1, 2008.
The average was created on July 3, 1884 by Charles Dow, co-founder of Dow Jones & Company, as part of the Customer's Afternoon Letter. From its inception (until May 26, 1896), the Dow Jones Transportation Average consisted of eleven transportation-related companies: nine railroads and two non-rail companies (Western Union and Pacific Mail).