The stock's fall snapped a four-day winning streak.

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.

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.

After surging more than 700 points in Tuesday trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 245 points Wednesday to close down 0.6%. The Treasury’s auction of 5-year notes has concluded. Paying ...

For more than 128 years, the iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI 0.77%) has served as a barometer of Wall Street's health. Over that time, it's evolved from an index that contained a dozen ...

Q: What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average anyway? A: It’s a venerable U.S. stock-market index that Charles Dow invented in 1896. It comprises 30 stocks, which the selection committee ...