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The multiplier for the Dow Jones is 5, essentially meaning that Dow Futures are working on 5-1 leverage. If the Dow Futures are trading at 10,000, a single futures contract would have a market value of $50,000. For every 1 point the Dow Jones Industrial Average fluctuates, the Dow Futures contract will increase or decrease $5.
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.
The first index to track commodity futures prices was the Dow Jones futures index which started being listed in 1933 (backfilled to 1924). [1] The next such index was the CRB ("Commodity Research Bureau") Index, which began in 1958. Due to its construction both of these were not useful as an investment index.
US stocks rose Friday, with the Dow Jones closing at a record high for the second day in a row. ... Here's where US indexes stood at the 4:00 p.m. closing bell on Friday: S&P 500: 5,648.26, up 1.01% .
First calculated on May 26, 1896, [2] the index is the second-oldest among U.S. market indices, after the Dow Jones Transportation Average. 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 .
In November 2023, Moomoo announced a collaboration with Cboe Global Markets to offer U.S. index options, [48] including options for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq-100, Russell 2000, S&P 500, and Cboe Volatility Index to U.S. customers. [49]
S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC is a joint venture between S&P Global, the CME Group, and News Corp that was announced in 2011 and later launched in 2012. It produces, maintains, licenses, and markets stock market indices as benchmarks and as the basis of investable products, such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs), mutual funds, and structured products.
In just about every case the index is in fact a Commodity Futures Index. The first such index was the Dow Jones Commodity Index, which began in 1933. [23] The first practically investable commodity futures index was the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index, created in 1991, [24] and known as the "GSCI". The next was the Dow Jones AIG Commodity Index.