Dow Jones Average
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Trademark.
any of the indexes published by Dow Jones & Company, a financial publishing firm in New York City, showing the average closing prices of the representative common stocks of 30 industrials, 20 transportation companies, or 15 utilities.
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British Dictionary definitions for Dow-Jones average
Dow-Jones average
/ (ˈdaʊˈdʒəʊnz) /
noun
US a daily index of stock-exchange prices based on the average price of a selected number of securities
Origin of Dow-Jones average
1C20: named after Charles H. Dow (died 1902) and Edward D. Jones (died 1920), American financial statisticians
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