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
Markets were little changed Friday, with the Dow Jones average up 0.2 percent at 11:30 a.m. and the Standard & Poor’s index almost precisely flat.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2012
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 blue-chip stocks included in the Dow-Jones average do not really reflect what has happened to these stocks.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Dow-Jones average closes at 569.02, a loss of 4.27 for the week.
From Time Magazine Archive
The stock market climbed to three new records after the news, wound up the week with the Dow-Jones average standing at a robust 922.
From Time Magazine Archive
Actually, the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrial stocks does not completely show the extent of the current rise.
From Time Magazine Archive
But by the end of the week, volume subsided to a modest 3,380,000 shares, and the Dow-Jones average settled back to 590.19, a gain of about 14 points for the week as a whole.
From Time Magazine Archive
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