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The New York Stock Exchange reopened that day following a nearly four-and-a-half-month closure since July 30, 1914, and the Dow in fact rose 4.4% that day (from 71.42 to 74.56). However, the apparent decline was due to a later 1916 revision of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which retroactively adjusted the values following the closure but ...
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.
Description: Same as en:Image:DJIA historical graph.svg, except logarithmic rather than linear.Log 10 applied to all values.. From May, 1896 - Dec, 1900: monthly closings; Source:
Whether you realize it or not, this is a big week for the ageless Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI). Following the close of trading today, Nov. 7, a new era will begin for the Dow ...
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 jumped Friday for its best session of the year, as investors wrapped up a strong month after the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation measure came in largely ...
After nearly six months of extreme volatility during which the Dow experienced its largest one-day point loss, largest daily point gain, and largest intraday range (of more than 1,000 points) at the time, the index closed at a new 12-year low of 6,547.05 on March 9, 2009, [61] its lowest close since April 1997. The Dow had lost 20% of its value ...
As the Dow has gotten steadily higher over the last several decades, larger point drops translate into smaller percentage drops. Here are the biggest one-day point drops in the Dow's history Skip ...