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Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) the oldest and best known stock market index in the world. It includes the stocks of 30 top companies of leading United States industries.
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What is Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)?
Dow Jones Industrial Average is a stock market index that is the price-weighted average of 30 significant stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), American Stock Exchange (AMEX) and NASDAQ over a period of time. In other words, it captures changes in share prices of 30 large, well-known U.S. companies and range from the largest to the smallest selections in the Depository Trust Company (DTC) Pricing Guide, which lists the individual securities monitored by Standard & Poor's (S&P).
Fact about Dow Jones Industrial Average(DJIA)
The term "Dow Jones" is derived from the first stock index of the same name, developed by Charles Dow in 1896. Initially a simple average of prices of twelve railroad stocks that were selected by Dow, the DJIA has become a famous measure of how shares of publicly traded companies based in the United States have performed. Today it includes 30 components ($12 trillion market cap), making up just one third of the value of the average U.S. stock market's total capitalization.