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The Dow Jones Composite Average is the stock market index composed of 65 prominent companies traded on both exchanges, maintained and tracked by S&P Dow Jones Indices.The average's components include every stock from the Dow Jones Industrial Average (30 components), the Dow Jones Transportation Average (20), and the Dow Jones Utility Average (15).
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.
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. The index is maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices, an entity majority-owned by S&P Global. Its components are selected by a committee.
We'll dive into today's CPI data more below. First, let's check in on the performance of major indexes today. Nasdaq Composite: Up 414.91 ... Dow Jones Industrial Average: Up 637.94 (+1.50%) Here ...
Let’s check in on how major indexes are performing today: Dow Jones Industrial Average: Down 90.67 (-.21%) S&P 500: […] Live Market Updates: Nasdaq Composite Drops Thurday – Where is the QQQ ...
Unlike the market cap-weighted S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite, where larger companies exert more influence on these respective indexes, the Dow is a share price-weighted index.
The chart of the day. What we're watching. What we're reading. Economic data releases and earnings. With its 0.04% gain Thursday, the Dow finally broke its 10-day losing streak, the worst since ...
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 not those before, and it represents the only discontinuity in the index's history rather than an actual loss. [3] [4]