On September 29, 2008, the Dow dropped 777.68 points.
Dow mainly stands for Dow Industrial Average which is also known as Dow 30, Industrial Average, Dow Jones or Dow. Investing in Dow Jones Industrial Average is mainly accessed within equities through exchange traded funds and derivatives through future and option contracts. The Dow is used as one of the several stock market indices which was first created by Charles Dow and named after him who was the ninteenth century wall street Journal editor and co-founder. The average is named after one of his business associates. The Dow is also one of the most closely watched standard indices which tracks the activities of the stock market. The Dow elements mainly trade on the two of the largest stock market companies, NASDAQ OMX and the NYSE Euronext. Hope this helps.
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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.
This was a good question as it made me learn the answer myself! Here's the link from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average And here's an excerpt explaining the Index. 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 & Company co-founder Charles Dow. Dow compiled the index as a way to gauge the performance of the industrial component of America's stock markets. It is the oldest continuing U.S. market index, aside from the Dow Jones Transportation Average, which Dow also created. Today, the average consists of 30 of the largest and most widely held public companies in the United States. The "industrial" portion of the name is largely historical—many of the 30 modern components have little to do with heavy industry. To compensate for the effects of stock splits and other adjustments, it is currently a scaled average, not the actual average of the prices of its component stocks—the sum of the component prices is divided by a divisor, which changes over time, to generate the value of the index.
The New York Stock Exchange is the largest stock exchange in the world by market capitalization. The more than 2,000 companies listed account for more than 13 trillion dollars of capital. When investors look for an indication of market trends, they generally look at one of the many market indexes used to measure market buys and sells. One of the most closely watched market indexes is the Dow Jones Index, established in 1896. It shows how 30 of the largest publicly-traded U.S. companies have traded during any given session.What are the Dow components?The Dow Jones Index includes some of the largest and most well-known companies in many sectors of the U.S. economy. The companies are a mix of historically iconic names, such as Dupont, Proctor & Gamble, Exxon Mobil and General Electric, and newer companies that are more recent corporate successes, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Intel and McDonald's. Occasionally the make-up of the Dow Index changes. Companies are added or dropped as company stock prices and overall economic health decline. In 2008 for instance, Kraft Foods replaced American International Group (AIG), and, in 2009, The Travelers Companies and Cisco Systems replaced General Motors and Citigroup. When companies are replaced, the scale calculations and weighted average equations are adjusted, so the average price remains the same, and the overall Dow level does not flucuate due to the addition or removal of companies.Many of the companies included in the Dow Jones Index are considered "blue chip" stocks and, thus, good long-term investments. Why the Dow is so widely used as an indexThe 30 companies that make up the Dow Jones Index tend to trade heavily during an average trading session. That heavy trading, along with the combined volume of shares issued by these 30 companies, provides a good benchmark or indicator about what the rest of the market is doing. The idea behind the Dow index is that as the publicly-traded stocks of these powerful companies go, so goes the rest of the market. So when the news reports that the Dow Index dropped 300 points, it means that many investors sold their investments and took some of their money out of the stock market.The Dow Jones Index is based on 30 of the most stable publicly-traded companies in the market. Therefore, when the stocks of these companies fluctuate up or down, it is a good indication of how the rest of the stock market is performing. The Dow Jones Index is one of the most historically reliable indexes to indicate the health and volatility of market investments.
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The letter drop box was invented in 1973 by Robert Spencer who worked for Dow Chemical in Midland, Michigan. Their concept was to deposit funds from customers as soon as possible then Dow would turn around and "loan" out short term (like a weekend) funds for large corporations for purposes like meeting payroll. They made tens of thousands of dollars from a lot of "weekend loans." If they had a customer who mailed funds from Oregon, they were given an address to a lock box close enough so the payment would reach the box within one day. Courriers would visit each box multiple times a day and deposit the funds in a Dow Chemical account.
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There is no known company by the name Dow Industrials. If one is looking for information on Dow Industrials average, this is referring to a stock market index.
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