2006-08-31 13:35:58 · 4 answers · asked by 0117 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Advertising & Marketing
he Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE: DJI) is one of several stock market indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company founder Charles Dow. Dow compiled the index as a way to gauge the performance of the industrial component of America's stock markets. It is the oldest continuing U.S. market index.
Today, the average consists of 30 of the largest and most widely held public companies in the United States. The "industrial" portion of the name is largely historical—many of the 30 modern components have little to do with heavy industry. To compensate for the effects of stock splits and other adjustments, it is currently a weighted average, not the actual average of the prices of its component stocks.
2006-08-31 13:37:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the the average point change for a selected set of stocks in the dow jones index.
2006-08-31 20:37:39 · answer #2 · answered by Allen G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/dow/
2006-08-31 20:37:48 · answer #3 · answered by Stuart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
exclusive bunch of companies
2006-08-31 20:38:00 · answer #4 · answered by Jay P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋