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there are 13,000 compenies listed on Dow Jones.
A Dow Jones Industrial Average chart measures 30 of the largest and most influential public companies in the stock market. Some companies that are measured by the Dow Jones chart are Verizon, Microsoft, HP, Home Depot and many more.
Dow Jones & Company, a financial news reporting company, has a number of financial indexes. Selection of the companies whose stock prices are represented in any Dow Jones index is determined by executives at Dow Jones & Company. The most famous of the Dow Jones indexes is the Dow Jones Industrial Average, know informally as "The Dow". It is computed using the stock prices of 30 of the largest and most widely traded companies.
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The Dow Jones Index (typically the Dow Jones Industrial Average) indicates the relative value of companies based on an average of the 30 largest and most widely-known companies. If the Dow Jones is high, it is assumed that the economy is doing well as profits are high and citizens are spending money.
Thirty companies make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, including prestigous companies such as American Express, Bank of America, ExxonMobil and Home Depot.
The Dow Jones today was trading at 1.42% lower at 10,834.94. The purpose of the Dow Jones is to show every one how a vast selection of the top public US companies are trading.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is probably the most widely followed index that measures how the stock market is performing. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been in use since being constructed by Charles Dow in 1896. Although the index consists of only 30 large blue chip companies, over time the Dow Jones has been a remarkably accurate barometer of the overall performance of the stock market. The Dow Jones average is maintained by private companies who determine which companies to add or delete from the Dow Jones index components. The keepers of the Dow Jones strive to include stocks that best represent the overall US economy. The Dow Jones Average is sometimes criticized for being calculated on a price-weighted basis since the price change of a stock with a high price will have more of an impact on the Dow than a lower priced stock. Nonetheless, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has withstood the test of time and it is unlikely that the method of calculating daily changes in the Dow Jones will be changed. Almost all of the companies included in the Dow Jones would be recognized by most Americans due to their size and interaction with millions of consumers on a daily basis. Some of the most widely recognized companies in the Dow Jones Index include American Express, AT&T, Coca-Cola, General Electric, The Home Depot, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Nike, Procter & Gamble, Travelers, Verizon, Wal-Mart, and Walt Disney.
"Dow Jones is the company that does the trading of DJia futures. It stands for Dow Jones Industrial Average, and gives the current and future stock market ratings."
Dow Jones is less commonly known as Dow Jones Industrial Common. Dow Jones is a stock market index, created by Charles Henry Dow.
No-- for example MicroSoft is one of the Dow thirty and its primary trading exchange is the Nasdaq-NMS
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was founded in May 1896. It is based on thirty large companies that trade in the US and the average is created by weighting the stock prices to get a realistic overal value.