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Cisco Systems is gearing up for a hotly anticipated first-quarter report after Wednesday's closing bell. Cisco is the strongest performer on the Dow Jones Industrial Average today. The company ...
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 US's Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 suffered from the greatest single-day percentage fall since the 1987 stock market crash, as did the UK's FTSE 100, which fell 10.87%. The Canadian S&P/TSX Composite Index dropped 12%, its largest one-day drop since 1940. [259]
The Dow Jones Utilities is a price-weighted average. History. The index was created in 1929 when all utility stocks were removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average. On April 20, 1965, the index closed at 163.32. On September 13, 1974, the index closed at 57.93. Annual returns
The Dow Jones Transportation Average ( DJTA, also called the "Dow Jones Transports") is a U.S. stock market index from S&P Dow Jones Indices of the transportation sector, and is the most widely recognized gauge of the American transportation sector. It is the oldest stock index still in use, even older than its better-known relative, the Dow ...
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Charles Dow. Charles Henry Dow ( / daʊ /; November 6, 1851 – December 4, 1902) was an American journalist [1] who co-founded Dow Jones & Company with Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser . Dow also co-founded [2] The Wall Street Journal, [3] which has become one of the most respected financial publications in the world.
The news even helped spur the Dow Jones Industrial Average today, even though Dell isn't part of that august index. You see, Dow component Hewlett-Packard was eager to take advantage of the situation.