Financial Literacy: Dow Jones Industrial Average

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This "Dow " is an index of 30 component stocks.
The Dow has been calculated for more than 100 years.
Membership changes over the years as businesses
thrive and decline.

While the Dow only tracks 30 companies they
represent the entire market because they contain
between one-fourth and one-third the total value
of the entire market on any given day.