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Dow Jones Industrial Average
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Dow Jones Industrial Average
The best known U.S. index of stocks. A price-weighted average of 30 actively traded blue-chip stocks, primarily industrials including stocks that trade on the New York Stock Exchange. The Dow, as it is called, is a barometer of how shares of the largest US companies are performing. There are hundreds of investment indexes around the world for stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities.

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Unlike the Dow Jones Industrial Index, however, there is a maximum point to the State of Caring Index.
The Dow Jones industrial index declined more than 50 points after 2 p.
4 percent gain for the Dow Jones Industrial Index and a 35 percent return for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.
 
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