Dow Jones Index Historical Prices?

Question

I am trying to locate a free listing of the closing prices for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) over the last 100+ years, preferably monthly but annual is ok too. Any idea where I could find this?

Answer 1

I can't get you 100 years, but I can get you about 80.

So if you're looking for historical data, it's simple!

Go to Yahoo finance (http://finance.yahoo.com)

Type in your symbol of the stock you’re looking for

Then on the left, click on historical quotes.

Now, you can then type in the date range you want and choose daily/weekly/monthly, etc and download the data to excel or wherever.


Or if you prefer, you can go to this link instead. Just replace DJI with the stock symbol that you’re looking for. Here's the link for the DJIA.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EDJI

Have fun!


*The adjusted price is the stock price adjusted for splits. So if a stock was at 100, and split 2 for 1 to 50, the adjusted price would show you the price as if the stock had always been at 50 so you can determine the real change in value of that stock over time.