Dow Jones Industrial Average -DJIA Definition

Posted by Admin on Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Dow Jones Industrial Average - DJIA Definition. Dow Jones industrial average falls about 300 points. This Tagline from any media make me a little confuse. What is Dow Jones industrial average? That question blow up in my mind. As usually to clearing about something i use google to find out.

According to wikipedia.org, The Dow Jones Industrial Average or DJIA, also referred to as the Industrial Average, the Dow Jones, the Dow 30, or simply the Dow, is a stock market index, and one of several indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow. It is now owned by the CME Group, which is the majority owner of Dow Jones Indexes. The average is named after Dow and one of his business associates, statistician Edward Jones. It is an index that shows how 30 large, publicly owned companies based in the United States have traded during a standard trading session in the stock market.It is the second oldest U.S. market index after the Dow Jones Transportation Average, which was also created by Dow.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average
currently consists of the following 30 major American companies. Here is DJIA company :

3M 
Alcoa 
American Express 
AT&T 
Bank of America 
Boeing 
Caterpillar 
Chevron Corporation 
Cisco Systems 
Coca-Cola 
DuPont 
ExxonMobil 
General Electric 
Hewlett-Packard 
The Home Depot 
Intel 
IBM 
Johnson & Johnson 
JPMorgan Chase 
Kraft Foods 
McDonald's 
Merck 
Microsoft 
Pfizer 
Procter & Gamble 
Travelers 
United Technologies Corporation 
Verizon Communications 
Wal-Mart 
Walt Disney 

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