just looked at the charts and it appeared to be around 14000 a year ago. Today, 10/8/08, at 11:36 PST the DJIA is around 9555 and a 40 year chart appears to have a base at 8500 to 7500 points but below 7500 there is a very steep slide down to 4000. If copy and paste the http below in your address bar you might go to a 40 year chart http://money.CNN.com/quote/chart/chart.html?pg=ch&symb=djia&time=all&freq=1dy&charts=0&comp=&compidx=aaaaa%7E0&ind_compind=&uf=0&lf=1&ma=0&maval=60
The markets were closed on New Year's Day, but the Dec 31 close was 8776.39 and Jan 2 closed at 9034.69.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9.336.93 on October 31, 2008.
Try marketwatch.com or investors.com or go to a library and get the newspaper for the following day.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9,034.69 on January 2, 2009. It was above 9000 for the first time since November 2008. Source: CNNMoney.com Market Report 02-01-09
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 7,949.09 on the day Barack Obama took office as the 44th President of the United States on January 20, 2009.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average's lowest point to date in 2009 occured on March 9, 2009, when it was at 6547.05.
On December 24, 2009, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 10,520.10.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average's lowest point to date in 2009 occured on March 9, 2009, when it was at 6547.05.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june08/wildweek_01-25.html