Dow Jones Average

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Trademark.
  1. 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

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noun
  1. US a daily index of stock-exchange prices based on the average price of a selected number of securities

Origin of Dow-Jones average

1
C20: named after Charles H. Dow (died 1902) and Edward D. Jones (died 1920), American financial statisticians

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