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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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PHOTO (Color) Traders work the floor Monday on Wall Street as the Dow Jones average drops by 1.
For the national market, the picture was much the same> in November the Dow Jones average rose 4.
By having a handle on future movement of the Dow Jones average, investors can gain insight into futures, industrial sectors, and indexes related to or impacted by the Dow--as well as the performance of the most influential companies in the United States.
 
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