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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.
The Dow enters two long downturns in 1970 and 1974; during the latter, it falls 45% to the bottom of a 20-year range. Three short-lived cyclical bull markets occurred during this period, each of which lasted no more than two years. 1982–2000: Bull market. The Dow experiences its most spectacular rise in history.
However, the Dow began an upward trend shortly after the attacks, and regained all lost ground to close above 10,000 for the year. In 2002, the Dow dropped to a four-year low of 7,286 on September 24, 2002, due to the stock market downturn of 2002 and lingering effects of the dot-com bubble. Overall, while the NASDAQ index fell roughly 75% and ...
25 years ago today: Jason Zweig's excellent "This Day in Financial History" is featured on the cover of the Sept. 28, 1987 Fortune magazine, which asks, "ARE STOCKS TOO HIGH?" The story went on to ...
September consumer price index data released on Thursday showed inflation rose 2.4% year-over-year, ... Dow Jones Industrial Average: 42,454.12, ... The 10-year Treasury yield was about flat at 4.07%.
This article is part of a recurring series on Wall Street's storied past. All events presented here took place on one or more of the years following the 1896 creation of the Dow Jones Industrial ...
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 ...
Though this would all seem to be great news for the Dow's newest addition, history stands in the way of Wall Street's most-revered index. For the last 30 years, ... top-10 influencers in the Dow, ...