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
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
The Dow Jones average fell 588 points Monday and shed over 200 more on Tuesday, after being up for most of the day.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 25, 2015
On October 19, 1987 -- "Black Monday" -- the Dow Jones average plummeted by 508 points, to 1,738.74.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2011
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
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 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
The overall market is in worse shape than indicated by the Dow-Jones average of blue chips or Standard & Poor's index of 500 Big Board issues.
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
The Dow-Jones average soared 32 points, its biggest one-day rise ever.*
From Time Magazine Archive
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