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The Dow: 130 Years as the Original Index Icon
The Dow’s longevity has been earned through sustained attention to governance, methodology and relevance. Explore how this global index icon’s continued evolution helps it track a changing market.
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130 Years of The Dow: Why It Still Matters to Asia-Pacific
How Wall Street’s Oldest Barometer Impacts Markets from Singapore to Seoul When Charles Dow published his first industrial average on May 26, 1896, Asia’s great stock exchanges had barely been born. Tokyo’s bourse was just 15 years old; Hong Kong’s exchange had yet to open its doors. Today, many Asian markets take cues from the…
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The Dow Hits 50,000!
The Dow Jones Industrial Average® (DJIA) just closed above 50,000 for the first time in its near 130-year history. The Dow®’s latest milestone marks the third time this decade that the U.S. equity barometer first surpassed a 10,000 increment and—unsurprisingly, perhaps, given successive milestones require smaller gains to be achieved—the latest milestone came in record…
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