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Business Definition for: Dow Jones Averages
- an index of the prices of selected stocks on the New York Stock Exchange compiled by Dow Jones & Company, Inc
Additional Resources
- Dow Jones Indexes Selects IBM to Power Indexes and Dow Jones Industrial Average
- IBM today announced that Dow Jones Indexes, a premier global provider of investable indexes, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, has selected IBM servers as the platform to calculate its suite of worldwide indexes and averages that are disseminated globally in real-time through major market data vendors and published...
- Research articles 2006-03-17
- Dow Jones Makes Its Indexes Available For Use In EIP Products.
- Dow Jones is offering equity index product insurers licenses to use three Dow indexes in the carriers' equity indexed annuity products, according to NFC Consulting Group, a Chicago firm that has been retained to contact potential licensees. The indexes are the Dow Jones Industrial, Dow Jones...
- Research articles 1999-04-19
- Dow Jones Newsletters' LBO Wire is a daily news and analysis service on the entire buy-out markets, including small and mid-market deals
- Dow Jones Newsletters' New York LBO Wire is a daily news and analysis service on the entire buy-out markets, including small and mid-market deals. Delivered via e-mail at 8:30 a.m. every working day, the letter includes information on companies in play, deals, deal closures, fund-raising activity, deal finance, and exits....
- Research articles 2005-02-28
- Dow Jones Newsletters' LBO Wire is a daily news and analysis service on the entire buy-out markets, including small and mid-market deals
- Dow Jones Newsletters' New York LBO Wire is a daily news and analysis service on the entire buy-out markets, including small and mid-market deals. Delivered via e-mail at 8:30 a.m. every working day, the letter includes information on companies in play, deals, deal closures, fund-raising activity, deal finance, and exits....
- Research articles 2005-03-17
- Dow Jones Industrial's Longest Streaks Below 200-Day Average
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: As we noted yesterday, even after Tuesday's strong rally, the major averages remain well below their long-term 200-day moving averages (DMA). The last time the Dow closed above its 200-DMA was 204 trading days ago (5/19/08). This represents the eleventh longest...
- External links 2009-03-11
- The R.N. Elliott story: making waves. (Ralph Nelson Elliott; Elliott Wave Theory)
- Ralph Nelson Elliott's 'The Wave Principle' was first introduced on Feb. 19, 1935 when Elliott sent a copy of the treatise to Charles J. Collins of the Investment Council Inc. of Detroit, MI. Collins, who was analyzing the Dow Jones averages for 1935, used Elliott's analyzing techniques which the latter...
- Research articles 1994-11-01
- Changing times
- Last May, six changes were made to the 15-stock Dow Jones Utility Average in "one of the biggest reconfigurations of the average in its history," according to the Wall Street Journal. Journal editors determine the stocks that make up the Dow Jones Averages, which include industrial and transportation averages as...
- Research articles 1997-07-01
- Rail Transport CDS Levels and the Dow Theory
- Jim Delaney submits: Charles Dow, co-founder of Dow Jones and Company, wrote a collection of 225 editorials in the Wall Street Journal between 1851-1902 that, after his death, were collected, organized and represented as the “Dow Theory”. It is, in essence, a combination of what is now...
- External links 2009-08-14
- Dow Jones: Predictive Value of Inflation Adjusted Averages
- H.J. Huney submits: Dow 7000, Dow 5000, Dow 3000? Where will it all end?! I’m sure most of us have read numerous predictions about where the market is headed. Relatively optimistic market observers believe we are close to a bottom already, while others have been as pessimistic as to suggest that the Dow...
- External links 2008-10-29
- How now, Dow Theory?
- The Dow Theory market timing strategy -- based on the synchronism, or lack thereof, of the Dow Jones Industrial and Transportation averages -- turned bearish last August. Yet it stayed bearish through the 30 percent rally in stocks in the last quarter and has remained that way during this year's...
- Research articles 1999-03-09
- Nasdaq Index Plummets as Dow Jones Averages Rises.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Apr. 4--The Nasdaq Composite index plummeted nearly 350 points yesterday, the biggest point decline in its 29-year history, as Microsoft Corp.'s failed settlement talks in the federal antitrust case accelerated a sell-off that began last week and has Apr. 4--The Nasdaq Composite index plummeted nearly 350...
- Research articles 2000-04-03
- Dow Jones Transportation, Utility, Composite Market Averages To Underlie Futures Contracts; More Than 250 Dow Jones Index-Based Products Now Available to Investors
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- Research articles 2000-07-19
- Market Outlook: Looking Forward to a Data-Heavy Week
- Sean Hannon submits: Last week, the bulls took a beating. Having reigned supreme while the market worked 40% higher from its March low, the bulls seemed invincible. All news was construed to support stocks as the path of least resistance was higher. But over the past five trading days,...
- External links 2009-06-22
- Stock prices slip on profit-taking
- NEW YORK AP -- Another round of profit-taking sent stocks on a second straight drop Wednesday, but leading market averages cut their losses over the last hour as the slide proved too enticing for bargain hunters. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 19.75 to 6,422.94 after rebounding from...
- Research articles 1996-12-05
- Considering Buying Oil? Look for Funds with a Track Record
- Don Dion submits: The recent turmoil in oil prices has shifted the momentum of oil and gas ETFs in recent weeks. PowerShares DB Oil DBO fell 52 spots on our ETF Sector Momentum Table from October 21, 2008, to January 6, 2009, and while the fund’s market return...
- External links 2009-01-15
- S&P, Nasdaq increase to record highs
- NEW YORK AP -- Investors pushed broad stock averages to new highs Thursday but left the Dow Jones industrials just shy of a record, as traders adjusted portfolios ahead of Friday's "triple witching" day.
- Research articles 1997-06-20
- Bull or Bear? Let History Be the Guide
- John Lounsbury submits: Sometimes it is helpful to look at history. In evaluating what might be in store for the U.S. stock market, this is one of those times. I have selected the DJIA Dow Jones Industrial Average for analysis because data is available from before 1900. The graph below...
- External links 2008-08-12
- Bargain hunters lift blue chips; broader market closes mixed
- NEW YORK AP -- A late burst of bargain hunting boosted blue- chip shares on Tuesday, lifting some stock averages to new highs, but the rocky session produced a less decisive finish for the broad market. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 51.57 to 6,858.11, about 25 points...
- Research articles 1997-02-12
- Big names drive stock barometers to new highs
- NEW YORK AP -- Big-name technology shares drove leading stock averages to new highs Tuesday, but the broad market struggled as interest rates jumped back above a troubling threshold in bond trading. The Dow Jones industrial average erased an early 43-point skid and then flirted with the 7,400-mark,...
- Research articles 1997-05-28
- Commentary: Give summer movies a C, California an F
- Today there is a rating for everything. Movie ratings get a lot of attention. Baseball batting averages are hotly debated at Sunday picnics. Consumer groups rate the best cars. The stock market is measured by the Dow Jones, the S&P and many other yardsticks.So with the summer moving on so...
- Research articles 2003-08-01
