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The Dow Jones Industrial Average, an American stock index composed of 30 large companies, has changed its components 59 times since its inception, on May 26, 1896. [1] As this is a historical listing, the names here are the full legal name of the corporation on that date, with abbreviations and punctuation according to the corporation's own usage.
9 This was the Dow's close at the peak on January 11, 1973, before the 1973–74 stock market crash. 10 This was the Dow's close at the peak of August 25, 1987 before the Black Monday stock market crash. 11 The Dow reached an intraday high above 3,000 for the first time on Friday, July 13, 1990, before falling back below by the close.
In March 1957 the index was expanded to its current 500-stock structure and renamed the S&P 500 Stock Composite Index. Subsequently, closing beyond 50 for the first time in September 1958, the continued post-World War II boom in the United States would see the index nearly double to a closing price of 94.06 on February 9, 1966.
Many of the biggest percentage price moves in the Dow occurred early in its history, as the nascent industrial economy matured. In the 1900s, the Dow halted its momentum as it worked its way through two financial crises: the Panic of 1901 and the Panic of 1907. The Dow remained stuck in a range between 53 and 103 until late 1914.
While the S&P 500 was first introduced in 1923, it wasn't until 1957 when the stock market index was formally recognized, thus some of the following records may not be known by sources. [ 1 ] Largest daily percentage gains [ 2 ]
If you’d invested $2,000 in Microsoft stock on Jan. 15, 2015, it’d be worth $19,368.94 on Jan. 15, 2025. Over the past 10 years, the stock has seen +992% in total returns.
Ticker tape was the earliest electrical dedicated financial communications medium, transmitting stock price information over telegraph lines, in use from around 1870 to 1970. It consisted of a paper strip that ran through a machine called a stock ticker , which printed abbreviated company names as alphabetic symbols followed by numeric stock ...
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