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The following is a list of the milestone closing levels of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Legend: 1-point increments are used up to the 20-point level, 2-point increments up to the 50-point level, 5-point increments up to the 100-point level, 10-point increments up to the 500-point level, 20-point increments up to the 1,000-point level,
Stocks sold off Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling nearly 500 points, as investors’ fears over a recession surfaced.. The Dow dropped 494 points, or 1.2%. The S&P 500 shed ...
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).
The Dow slid by 496 points, or 1.2%, after plunging more than 700 points earlier in the session. The S&P 500 lost 1.4% and the Nasdaq Composite fell 2.3%. US Treasury yields fell.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, also known as the Dow, is one of the most popular stock market indexes, along with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite.The Dow tracks the stock performance of 30 ...
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In the case of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, also called simply the Dow or the DJIA, that segment is 30 of the largest publicly traded U.S. stocks, selected to reflect U.S. industry.
Stock market indices may be categorized by their index weight methodology, or the rules on how stocks are allocated in the index, independent of its stock coverage. For example, the S&P 500 and the S&P 500 Equal Weight each cover the same group of stocks, but the S&P 500 is weighted by market capitalization, while the S&P 500 Equal Weight places equal weight on each constituent.