Dow Jones Industrial Average

Dow 10,000 - Trick or Treat?

Loral Langemeier | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living


Loral Langemeier

I love Halloween. how often do you get to say "Boo!" without looking the fool? Oh, but wait a minute. If you're the Dow Jones Index, you get to say "Boo! I fooled you" often.

Main Street Lags Far Behind Wall Street In Recession Recovery

BusinessWeek | Moira Herbst | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business


On the one hand, the Dow Jones industrial average once again danced around 10,000 last week. If U.S. gross domestic product rebounds as expected on Oc...

The Art Market -- One Year Later

Stephanie Adamowicz | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York


Stephanie Adamowicz

When the Dow closed above 10,000 points last week and the Frieze art fair opened in London, art market observers were presented with an opportune time to take stock.

Enough Dow 10,000! These Numbers Actually Count

Eric Schurenberg | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business


Eric Schurenberg

by way of putting the five-figure Dow in perspective let note some other numbers that were released since the Dow hit the 10k mark and that matter a lot more to you and your future.

The Statistics Of The Great Recession

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 10.10.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — A year ago this weekend, the Dow Jones industrial average had just finished a slow-motion crash. Over eight days, it fell 2,400 point...

News Corp. Looking To Unload Dow Jones Industrial Average

AP | STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — The Dow Jones Industrial Average could get a new name. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that its publisher, Dow Jones & Co., ...

Dow Above 9,000 For First Time Since January

AP | Tim Paradis and Sara Lepro, AP Business Writers | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business


NEW YORK (AP) -- The Dow Jones industrials rose back above 9,000 for the first time since early January. Investors snapped up a broad range of stocks...

How Now Schizophrenic Dow?

Dan Dorfman | Posted 07.14.2009 | Business


Dan Dorfman

Oil is going up, interest rates are going up and unemployment will go --- all bad things --- and yet they're not killing the market. One money manager says that means the upward trend remains intact.

The Trouble with Markets

Michael J. Panzner | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business


Michael J. Panzner

In recent months, the spread between short and long-term bond yields has increased significantly, hitting record extremes. Many market-watchers believ...

Street looks past job data, logs 4th week of gains

AP | TIM PARADIS and MADLEN READ | Posted 05.04.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — Not even grisly job losses could get in the stock market's way Friday. The Dow Jones industrial average clawed higher to end above 8...

Will The Wall Street Journal Apologize To Obama?

Keith Boykin | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media


Keith Boykin

So what will the Journal say now that the stock market has "rebounded"? Does this mean the market now loves Obama's policies?

Wall Street opens 2nd quarter with a gain

AP | SARA LEPRO | Posted 05.02.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — Wall Street opened the second quarter with solid gains, extending a four-week rally that brought the market off its lowest levels in ...

The Dow vs. The Down and Out

Scott Paul | Posted 04.16.2009 | Business


Scott Paul

The Dow breaks 7,000 and suddenly we're on the road to recovery? No, Wall Street is shutting out a continued torrent of real and painful economic news from communities all across America.

Misleading MSNBC Graphics Attribute Economic Decline to Obama

Media Matters | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics


In the past few days, MSNBC has repeatedly used misleading graphics of the Dow Jones industrial average showing a decline since the beginning of Novem...

Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: March 5, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics


Burning up my inbox today is news of this story from the Charlotte News and Observer, about an anti-gay marriage rally in Raleigh. It contains thes...

Another Down Day

AP | SARA LEPRO and TIM PARADIS | Posted 04.05.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — Investors retreated from Wall Street again, driven by worries about the nation's big banks and General Motors Corp. Stocks slid to t...

12-Year Lows Rare For Dow

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 04.04.2009 | Business


While this week the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped below 7,000 and reached a 12-year low, such a measure is actually very rare. According to Th...

Comparing Bear Markets, 1929-2009

The Big Picture | Barry Ritholtz | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business


Check out the comparison of the current market, including Friday's low, to all previous bear markets. ...

Dow 11-Year Low Reached

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 03.23.2009 | Business


For immediate news on where the Dow is trading now go here. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell below its lowest close since 1997 on concerns that ...

Wall Street Gives Obama Thumbs Down

Dan Dorfman | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics


Dan Dorfman

Europe, Japan and the United States are all in the midst of a recession and the world's fastest growing emerging markets, among them China and India, are slowing markedly.

Plan to Take Action in 2009

Suze Orman | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business


Suze Orman

I am sorry to say that it is foolish to think that a stimulus package will be an insta-cure. I think it is wiser to to keep in mind that it is going to take years to make this all right.

BAD SIGN: Wal-Mart, McDonald's Lone Dow '08 Gainers

Wall Street Journal | ROB CURRAN and KEJAL VYAS | Posted 02.02.2009 | Business


The only two Dow stocks to rise in 2008 were Wal-Mart Stores, with a 18% gain, and McDonald's, up nearly 6%. General Motors fell 60 cents, or 16%, ...

Weekly Audit: It's a Recession, Stupid (and what that means) Economy NewsLadder

The Media Consortium | Posted 03.25.2009 | Business


The Media Consortium

We are clearly out of options that match up with Friedman's monetarism, indicating that public policy has nowhere left to turn except direct government spending on economic support.

Stocks tumble as Street worries about financials

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 11.07.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — The misery worsened on Wall Street Tuesday, with stocks piling on losses late in the session and bringing the two-day decline in the ...

Dow 10,000: As World Stocks Sink, Dow Jones Drops To Lowest Since 2004

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 11.06.2008 | Business


For the first time since October of 2004, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped below the 10,000-point mark. It has dropped as many as 700 poin...