C20: named after Charles H. Dow (died 1902) and Edward D. Jones (died 1920), American financial statisticians
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The Dow Jones average plunged more than 1,000 points during Monday’s trading session before recovering and finishing with a modest gain.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2022
The Dow Jones average rose over 1,900 points Friday but was still in bear market territory, down over 20 percent from its all-time last month.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 14, 2020
The Dow Jones average fell another 880 points by closing time on Tuesday afternoon, and has lost about 7% of its value in two days.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2020
Wall Street traders took it as an invitation to begin piling back into stocks, sending the Dow Jones average up by more than 600 points.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2018
This is profitability even by modern Wall Street standards: if the Dow Jones average had risen a similar amount since World War II, the index would now stand at over twenty thousand.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
The Nixon program had immediate and dramatic impact at home: on the first day the Dow-Jones average took a record jump on the New York Stock Exchange.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Dow-Jones average soared 32 points, its biggest one-day rise ever.*
From Time Magazine Archive
The average price of stocks in the Dow-Jones average is 19 times per-share earnings now v.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wall Street was still filled with bears who considered the stock rally only temporary, to be followed by a further decline to 400 or 380 on the Dow-Jones average.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Dow-Jones average reacted by registering a feeble 31-point gain on Friday.
From Time Magazine Archive
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