Dow jones industrial average

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Dow Jones Industrial Average – Know the meaning No need to describe the role of Dow Jones Industrial Average in the stock market. If you are a regular investor, then you will surely admire the role of the same. If you think this represents the economy, then you are thinking in the wrong way. Now, obvious the question raises what the meaning of the same. And the one more thing you need to know if this stands for nothing and no important role it has, then searching the main point what it means, is really very important for finding. You may know that the Dow usually refers to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Charles Dow was the inventor of this word. If you want to know the meaning in general, then it stands for an average of the value of one share each of thirty of the largest companies in the United States. It does not be the part of any thousands of other publicly traded companies. If you want to find the logical reasons and the meaning of Dow Jones Live, then you will surely witness different scenario but basically when a person want to split their stocks, basically he or she is exchanging two new shares for one old share (or similar exchange). To control this situation and the customers can not face any monetary loss, Dow Jones & Company accounts for it by using a scaled average, though that everything can be tracked. So, even you split your stock, it doesn’t affect the Dow average at all. The stock market price depends on the supply and demand. In effect, when you see the Dow Jones Live, you are seeing an average of thirty items from this big market. What information can we get from that? A bad news can affect the whole market but that can be little, similar is for the good news as well. The market runs depending on the thinking what customers think and give the prediction for future market. Just similar like that you can witness the value of the Dow will often go down compare to the real economic news. So, it is a prediction that tells you about what to come.


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