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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.
As of Tuesday's market close, the Dow has been down for nine days in a row. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg/Getty Images) The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed lower by 267 points on Tuesday, or 0.6% ...
The blue-chip Dow slipped 0.98%, marking a second straight week of losses. Despite the tough week, it was a winning May, with each of the major benchmarks registering a sixth positive month in seven.
Dow calculated his first average purely of industrial stocks on May 26, 1896, creating what is now known as the Dow Jones Industrial Average. None of the original 12 industrials still remain part of the index. [41] American Cotton Oil Company, a predecessor company to Hellmann's and Best Foods, now part of Unilever. [42]
The Dow and S&P 500 slipped on Monday, the first session after the biggest weekly percentage gains for the indexes this year, as investors assessed the likely path of interest rates from the ...
Worldwide Exchange is a television business news program on CNBC channels around the world. It used to be broadcast live from studios on three continents until May 11, 2012. The programme is anchored by Frank Holland and is produced at CNBC Global Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
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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 ...