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share index
share index An index formed by selecting a number of prominent shares traded on a stock exchange and comparing the value of these shares with their value on a stated date in the base year. The daily value of the shares takes into account the volume of shares traded (see weighted average). See Dow... Read more |
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Stock prices
DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE (DJIA) A measure of stock prices of important industrial companies, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) was first printed in the Wall Street Journal in 1897. The average is an indicator of the overall stock market and is used, along with other indexes, by... Read more |
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Dow Jones Average
Dow Jones Average indicators used to measure and report value changes in representative stock groupings on the New York stock exchange . There are four different averages—industrial stocks, transportation stocks, utility stocks, and a composite average of all three. The index was started in... Read more |
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Charles Henry Dow
Charles Dow Charles Dow (1851-1902), with his partner Edward Jones, founded Dow Jones & Company and The Wall Street Journal, in order to present business news in a simple, unbiased way. The paper became the most respected financial journal in the world. Dow also developed several stock... Read more |
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Wall Street Journal
WALL STREET JOURNAL WALL STREET JOURNAL. Charles Dowand Edward Jones, owners of Dow, Jones and Company, began publishing the daily Wall Street Journal on 8 July 1889. Both Dow and Jones were New Englanders with mutual roots in journalism in Providence, Rhode Island. Their company had been founded... Read more |
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Black Monday
Black Monday Oct. 19, 1987, in U.S. history, day of financial panic. The Dow Jones Average fell 508.32 points, a drop of 22.6%, the largest since 1914. The point decline as well as the volume, 604.33 million shares, exceeded previous records. Among the possible causes were investors' anxiety... Read more |
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program trading
program trading a form of securities trading, also known as index arbitrage. Program traders exploit the price discrepancies between indexes of stocks and futures contracts by using sophisticated computer models to hedge positions. Program trading (also called computer-assisted trading) arose with... Read more |
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The Dow Chemical Company
The Dow Chemical Company 2030 Willard H. Dow CenterMidland, Michigan 48674U.S.A.Telephone: (989) 636-1000Toll Free: (800) 422 -8193Fax: (989) 636-1830Web site:http://www.dow.com Public Company Incorporated: 1947Employees: 50,000Sales: $27.8 billion (2001)Stock Exchanges: Amsterdam Bavarian... Read more |
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