Dow Jones' Average
Example Sentences
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The Dow Jones average plunged more than 1,000 points during Monday’s trading session before recovering and finishing with a modest gain.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2022
The Dow Jones average has left past versions of the same in the dust.
From Salon • Sep. 30, 2018
The Dow Jones average fell 588 points Monday and shed over 200 more on Tuesday, after being up for most of the day.
From Washington Times • Aug. 25, 2015
Markets were little changed Friday, with the Dow Jones average up 0.2 percent at 11:30 a.m. and the Standard & Poor’s index almost precisely flat.
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2012
This is profitability even by modern Wall Street standards: if the Dow Jones average had risen a similar amount since World War II, the index would now stand at over twenty thousand.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
