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Dow Jones

Dow Jones

Dow Jones is one of the most recognized financial information and publishing firms in the world. Founded in 1882, the company has grown into a multi-national and multi-billion dollar per year firm. Some of the Dow Jones products include the Wall Street Journal and the Dow Jones Index, which is also seen as a major gauge of Wall Street activity.

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  1. What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?

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  2. What is the highest the dow jones has ever been?

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  1. What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?

    Dow Jones Industrial Average is at 8,325.48 pts, down -178.58...

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About Dow Jones

The Dow Jones Industrial average, also known as the DJIA, or just 'The Dow', is an index that shows how 30 large, publicly owned U.S. companies have traded during a standard trading session in the stock market

Dow Jones & Company was founded in 1882 by three reporters, Charles Dow, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser.

Within the first year, Dow Jones began publishing a newspaper titled, 'Journal', which contained various information bits about companies and need-to-know facts about everyday life. As the company expanded, they felt it was time to give the 'Journal' a make-over and transformed it into what is now 'The Wall Street Journal'.

As the company grew, Dow Jones began creating new products and, in 1997, created the Dow Jones Indexes, which the company is now most famous for.

The Dow Jones Indexes produces, maintains, licenses and markets indexes through the stock market. As of September 2010, the Dow Jones indexes over 800 licensees who issue more than 24,000 products.

The Dow Jones Indexes also provides information relative to stocks and the economy to CNBC and their own radio network, Wall Street Journal Radio Network.

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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 3: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the end of the first trading session of 2012 on January 3, 2012 in New York City. The Federal Reserve announced that it will begin to publish a forecast of its own interest rate forecasts. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 179.82 points.

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 20: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on December 20, 2011 in New York City. Following news of strength in the U.S. housing market and the easing of concerns about the European debt crisis, U.S. stocks rose today with the Dow Jones industrial average climbing 331 points, or 2.8 percent, according to early tallies.

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 12: A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on December 12, 2011 in New York City. Following fresh investor doubts about Europe's debt crisis, the Dow Jones industrial average slid 162 points, or 1.3%.

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 09: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on December 9, 2011 in New York City. Following news of an agreement between European leaders on a new deal to try to resolve the eurozone debt crisis, stocks rallied with the Dow Jones industrial average up 186 points, or 1.6%.

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