Dow Jones' Average

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The job then: “One of the jobs I had was to post what the Dow Jones average was doing on a pegboard, every hour,” says Heilbronn, who is based in New York, and is now among the longest-serving employees at Bank of America, parent company of Merrill.

From The Wall Street Journal

By the time the Great Recession ended in mid-2009, unemployment had doubled to 10% and the Dow Jones Average had fallen by 50%.

From Salon

Finally, we give thanks that gas prices have begun to fall, though not nearly as fast or far as the price of crypto currency, tech stocks or the Dow Jones Average.

From Seattle Times

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

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones average jumped 1.35% to a record high, outperforming 1.0% gains in tech-heavy Nasdaq, as investors rotated into cyclical shares out of flying-tech firms.

From Reuters