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  Closing milestones of the Dow Jones Industrial Average at AllExperts
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) has increased in value by an immense amount since opening at 40.94 on May 26, 1896.
Dow starts at around 150 in June 1949, and ends just five points shy of 1,000 on February 9, 1966.
This was the Dow's closing level at the peak of the 1929 bull market, a level that the Dow would not see again for 25 years.
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  Dow Jones Industrial Average - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On November 21, 1995 it closed above 5,000 (5,023.55) for the first time and on March 29, 1999 the average closed at 10,006.78 which was the first time the index closed above the 10,000 mark.
The average closed at an all-time peak of 11,722.98 on January 14, 2000.
The largest one-day percentage drop in the history of Dow Jones was on December 12, 1914, 24.39%.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Closing milestones of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
In the summer of 1896 the Dow sheds 30% to set an all-time low of 28.48, but quickly erases its losses, and eventually grows to a closing high of 381.17 (theoretical intra-day high of 386.1) on September 3, 1929.
The Dow enters two long downturns in 1970 and 1974; during the latter, it falls nearly 45% to the bottom of a 20-year range.
This was the Dow's close at the peak of the 1929 bull market, a level that the Dow would not see again for 25 years.
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 Quaest.io on Closing Milestones Of The Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) has increased in value by an immense amount since opening at 40.94 on May 26, 1896.
Traders deal with market that went nowhere as the Dow posted two distinct downturns (in 1970 and 1974) and flirted with 1,000 three times, in 1972, 1976, and 1981, but couldn't successfully break the mark and soar to new heights.
This was the Dow's closing level at the peak of the 1929 bull market, a level that the Dow would not see again for 25 years.
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 Dow Jones Industrial Average   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE: DJI, also called the DJIA, Dow 30, or informally the Dow industrials, the Dow Jones or The Dow) is one of several stock market indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones and Company co-founder Charles Dow.
Used as a derivative of Dow Jones, the term was applied by columnist and radio personality Steve Bhaerman under the pseudonym Swami Beyondananda in his Marxist analysis of the stock market, Duck Soup for the Soul (ISBN 1-887166-28-9): He "moved to New York to study Dowism with the noted stock market guru Yuan Tibet".
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is a price-weighted index that is calculated by dividing the sum of the prices of the 30 component stocks (Dow Jones Industrial Average components) by a number called the index divisor (DJIA Divisor).
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 DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE MILESTONES DJIA from 1906, Record High, Greatest Gains, Losses, Declines, Falls, Rises, ...
Dow Jones and Company, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol DJ, was founded in New York City in 1882 by Edward Davis Jones, Charles Henry Dow and Charles Milford Bergstresser.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is an index of 30 "blue-chip" U.S. stocks.
They take a broad view of what industrial means, too; in essence, it is almost any company that isn't in the transportation business or isn't a utility (because there also are Dow Jones Averages for those kinds of stocks).
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 Stock Market Encyclopedia Articles @ EconomyTrader.com (Economy Trader)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The media amplified the general euphoria, with reports of rapidly rising share prices and the notion that large sums of money could be quickly earned in the so-called new economy stock market.
Today, average individuals face sometimes very difficult risk management decisions that were not required of previous generations.
Most industrialized countries have regulations that require that if the borrowing is based on collateral from other stocks the trader owns outright, it can be a maximum of a certain percentage of those other stocks' value.
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Dow Jones Industrial Average - The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is one of several stock market indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones and Company founder Charles Dow.
Dow Jones Utility Average - The Dow Jones Utility Average (also known as the "Dow Jones Utilities") is a stock index that keeps track of the performance of 15 prominent utility companies.
Closing milestones of the Dow Jones Industrial Average - The following explains the closing milestones of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the most well known economic barometer in the world.
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 Dow Jones industrial average crosses 12,000 for the first time, closes below   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The index of 30 big-name stocks surpassed the milestone just after trading began, rising as high as 12,049.51, before pulling back as the market's initial wave of enthusiasm dissipated and investors cashed in some of their gains.
It took the Dow 7 1/2 years to make the trip from 11,000, having been pummelled during that time by the dot-com bust, recession and the aftermath of the 2001 U.S. terror attacks.
That slow trek was a striking contrast with the Dow's sprint from 10,000 to 11,000 in just 24 days in the spring of 1999, during the heady days of the Internet boom.
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 Dow's mark again an industrial feat : The Morning Call Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Over the years, Dow Jones and Co. has added financial firms, service providers and software developers to its popular index in the hopes of keeping it the principal benchmark of the U.S. capital economy.
The Dow peaked at 11,723 in mid-January 2000.
The same bandwagon effect was evident between the Dow industrials and small-cap stocks in the spring of 1999.
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 BBC NEWS | Business | Fact Files | Dow Jones milestones
The Dow breaks through the 6,000 points level for the first time and closes at 6,010.00, double where it stood just five-and-a-half years earlier.
After the Dow falls more than 550 points, trading is halted again for the final 30 minutes of trading.
New heights are scaled as the Dow closes at 9,337 points.
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 Dow Jones industrials pass 12,000 mark before closing at record 11,992.68 - USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
It took the Dow 7 1/2 years to make the trip from 11,000, having been pummeled during that time by the dot-com bust, recession and the aftermath of the 2001 terror attacks.
The Dow's quick move past 12,000 Wednesday came after a Labor Department report indicated consumer price pressures are leveling off and third-quarter earnings reports from companies including IBM bolstered investors' confidence.
And it was on Oct. 9, 2002, in the depths of the bear market, that the major indexes fell to their lowest levels in five and six years — the Dow closed that day at 7286.27.
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 Dow Jones History
By July 1932, the depths of the Depression, the industrial average was crawling at 41.22.
Not long after the industrial average punctured the 1000 mark, a recession occurred and the brutal bear market of 1973-74 set in, pushing the average all the way down to 577.60 in December 1974.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average seemed to be closing in on the 3000 mark in the summer of 1990.
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 Dow record highs point to recovery - Boston.com
The Dow Jones industrial average surged past its all-time trading high of 11,750.28 Tuesday, taking yet another step in its recovery from seven years of market turmoil.
On Tuesday, the Dow wiped out its old closing high of 11,722.98 and its previous trading high of 11,750.28, both of which had stood since Jan. 14, 2000.
The Dow, whose well-known large-cap stocks include aluminum producer Alcoa Inc., discount retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and the Walt Disney Co., rebounded well ahead of the broader Standard and Poor's 500 and the Nasdaq composite index, which also peaked in early 2000.
www.boston.com /business/articles/2006/10/03/dow_surges_to_new_closing_high   (613 words)

  
 Dow Jones Industrial Average - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The largest one-day percentage drop in the Dow occurred on "Black Monday" in 1987 when the average fell 22.6%.
Because of these issues, the SandP 500 is becoming more widely quoted and used as a more realistically broad market-performance indicator.
On April 8, 2004, another change occurred as International Paper, ATandT, and Eastman Kodak were replaced with Pfizer, Verizon, and AIG.
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 Dow Industrials Hover Around 12,000 - General - RedOrbit
NEW YORK - The Dow Jones industrial average swept past 12,000 for the first time Wednesday, extending its march into record territory as investors grow increasingly optimistic about corporate earnings and the economy.
The index of 30 big-name stocks surpassed the milestone just after trading began, rising as high as 12,049.51, before pulling back and hovering around 12,000 as the market's initial wave of enthusiasm dissipated and investors cashed in some of their gains.
The closely followed core inflation figure, which excludes energy and food, rose a modest 0.2 percent, in line with expectations.
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 Category:Dow Jones Industrial Average - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is one of several stock market indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones and Company founder Charles Dow.
It is the oldest continuing U.S. market index.
Closing milestones of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
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 BBC NEWS | Business | Dow Jones milestones
The average closed at 62.76, the first time it is published on a regular basis, and includes 14 stocks - 12 railroads and two industrials.
In less than two-and-a-half years the Dow Jones has managed to double in size.
The Dow plunges below the 10,000 points level again, prompted by an economic slowdown in the United States, and hefty losses on global technology markets.
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 Dow closes at record high for second straight day
The index of 30 blue chip stocks reached its second straight closing high today, soaring 123.27 to 11,850.61, after rising as high as 11,851.25 during the session.
Yet while it's an accomplishment that the Dow has managed to come back - it had sunk to a five-year closing low of 7,286.27 on Oct. 9, 2002, nearly 38 percent off its record high close - Wall Street is far from completely recovered.
The S&P 500's high close was 1,527.46, and the index remains more than 10 percent away from that milestone.
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 Stock Market Report
The index of 30 blue chip stocks closed at 11,014.69, up 225.65 for the session and marking its fourth new high in five trading sessions.
The index closed at 10,000 on March 29, making today's close the fastest rise between 1,000-point markers in history.
The Dow was pushed higher by manufacturing and industrial shares after investors got two fresh reminders that the economy is strong, but not inflationary.
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 Dow Jones - Journawiki - a Wikia wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Dow Jones and Company (Template:Nyse) is an American publishing and financial information firm.
MarketWatch is a popular financial website among retail investors, and Dow Jones purportedly coveted its successful business-to-consumer advertising base to augment its reliance on business-to-business advertising and subscription-based business models.
Dow Jones also owns Dow Jones Newswires, which is a news wire and competes with Reuters and Bloomberg News.
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 Highlights and lowlights of Dow Jones averages
The Dow Jones industrial average first appears on May 26, 1896.
- Oct. 27, 1997 -- Dow plunges a record 554.26 points to 7,161.15, a drop of 7.2 percent, as worries over a sharp selloff in Asian markets spread worldwide and lead to selling by traders seeking to lock in some profits from the year's gains.
Trading is halted twice during the day, ending the session a half hour early – a first under rules adopted after the 1987 crash and designed to restore order in a rapidly declining market.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 11,000 for the first time since June 7, 2001 closing at 11,011.90.
Black Monday (1987) on the Dow JonesThe largest one-day percentage drop in the history of Dow Jones was on December 12, 1914, 24.39%.
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 Dow Jones Industrial Average on Articler.com
The oldest stock market index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), was started on May 26, 1896 by financial reporter Charles Dow.
The Dow tracks 30 of the largest public companies in the stock market and is the most frequently quoted index when discussing how the market is doing.
The Dow took 76 years to hit its first milestone but it took less time to reach the next ones because the higher the Dow, the easier it is to jump 1,000 points.
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On January 9, 2006 the average broke the 11,000 barrier for the first time since June 2001, closing at 11,011.90.
The exact weightings for each component are published daily by Dow Jones.
Apart from investing in the individual stocks in the Dow Jones, there is also the option to invest in an.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- Dow Jones industrial average surges to 2nd straight closing high
NEW YORK – There is as much relief as there is celebration on Wall Street now that the Dow Jones industrial average has set new record highs for the first time in nearly seven years – these milestones are more a sign of recovery than achievement.
They have reason to be conservative – they have seen a series of events starting with the dot-com bust and recession and including the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks wipe out trading portfolios and send companies into bankruptcy and oblivion.
Yet while it's an accomplishment that the Dow has managed to come back – it had sunk to a five-year closing low of 7,286.27 on Oct. 9, 2002, nearly 38 percent off its record high close – Wall Street is far from completely recovered.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/business/20061004-1319-dowsnewrecord.html   (561 words)

  
 Dow passes 13,000 mark - baltimoresun.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
NEW YORK // The Dow Jones industrial average shot past 13,000 for the first time today as stronger-than-expected earnings reports streamed in, suggesting to investors that corporate America is successfully weathering the cooling economy.
It took the Dow just 129 trading days, since Oct. 18, to make the trek from 12,000 to 13,000, far less than the 7 1/2 years that the blue chips took to go from 11,000 to 12,000.
The Dow was the first of the major indexes to recover from the stock market's prolonged slump in the early part of the decade.
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