Meaning & use
Dow Jones
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Meanings
proper nounproperfinance
A well-known American stock market index that tracks the share prices of thirty large companies.
Grammar: Often used with 'the' and a verb of movement: the Dow Jones rose.
Patterns
- the Dow Jones Industrial Average
- the Dow Jones index
The Dow Jones rose by two hundred points on Tuesday.
Investors watched the Dow Jones for signs of a recession.
The Dow Jones closed lower after the interest rate news.
proper nounproperbusiness
An American financial information company that publishes business news and market data.
Grammar: Used as a name for the company: Dow Jones reported the story.
Dow Jones publishes several financial newspapers.
She worked as an editor at Dow Jones for ten years.
A Dow Jones report gave the latest figures.
Common combinations
- Dow Jones Industrial Average
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average is the best-known US index.
- Dow Jones index
- The Dow Jones index fell sharply this week.
- Dow Jones closed
- The Dow Jones closed higher on Friday.
- Dow Jones futures
- Dow Jones futures pointed to a weak opening.
Synonyms and how they differ
- the Dow
- The Dow is the everyday short form and means the same index.
- S&P 500
- The S&P 500 tracks five hundred companies, so it is broader than the Dow Jones with its thirty.
- Nasdaq
- The Nasdaq is weighted toward technology companies, unlike the Dow Jones, which holds a mix of large firms.
Word family
Commonly confused: Dow Jones or Nasdaq?
Dow Jones vs Nasdaq
Nasdaq is a different exchange and index, mainly of technology firms, not the thirty-company Dow Jones.
Practice
The financial report said the ___ fell two percent, with big losses for major industrial firms.
Choose one answer.
The Dow Jones is a stock index that rises and falls. The other options are place names or nicknames and are not measured in percentage changes.
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