The Dow Jones index rose Thursday after a surprisingly strong June jobs report. Nvidia stock and Palantir rallied.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, The Standard and Poor’s 500 (S&P 500) and The NASDAQ Composite are typically considered top indexes. The S&P 500 is about a century old and examines the top 500 ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was playing catch-up with the other major U.S. indexes on Tuesday. While the S&P 500 was down about 0.4% and the Nasdaq Composite was down 1.3%, the Dow had gained 0.7 ...

The Dow is based on share prices because when Dow and Jones created it back in the day and it had only 12 stocks, the only metric available for them to use was share price.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a stock index composed of 30 large-cap American companies, and its performance is thought to reflect the broader market. When investors want to know how the ...

Dow Jones Industrial Average vs. S&P 500 The Dow and the S&P 500 are probably the two most well-known stock market indexes, but there are a couple of key differences between the two.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is a popular stock market index that tracks 30 U.S. blue chip stocks.

For more than 128 years, the iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI-0.10%) has served as a barometer of Wall Street's health. Over that time, it's evolved from an index that contained a dozen ...

With the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) sitting around 40,000, it may seem like a big stretch to expect it to reach 1 million at any point. After all, in the year 1900, the Dow was ...

The past few days in the stock market have been so wild—a plunge on Monday, a sharp pivot upward on Tuesday, a rise with lots of oscillations on Wednesday—that a record set by the Dow Jones ...

With the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) sitting around 40,000, it may seem like a big stretch to expect it to reach 1 million at any point. But it isn't as far-fetched as it seems.