Dow Jones Industrial Average

This weekend in Barron's online: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is overdue for a makeover, and the prospects for eBay, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Oracle. Cover Story "Shake Up the Dow!" by Andrew Bary. Barron's cover story this week suggests that the Dow Jones Industrial Average risks...

China is lowering its economic growth target to an eight year low, so that it can focus on increasing domestic demand and prepare for next year's leadership change. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that his 2012 growth target of just 7.5 percent would allow Chinese officials to increase their...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been rallying all year and is approaching the key 13,000 level. With Dow futures up roughly 40 points in the premarket, a strong rally today could send the index above that level. Breaking 13,000 would send the market to a level it has not seen since mid-2008...

Dow futures spiked early on Friday morning when it was reported that the European Central Bank (ECB) might lend money to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Speculation is that the money lent by the ECB to the IMF would be funneled back to Europe in the form of IMF aid. Many market...

As the statement goes, hope is not a valid investment thesis. Yet, that appeared to be the case on Friday morning. Markets in the US traded higher on Friday—at one point, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up over 100 points. The financials enjoyed strong bullish activity, rallying the most of...

The euro rallied on Monday morning, as the EUR/USD pair spiked above the 1.36 level. News from Europe may have been the primary driving catalyst behind the move. Dexia, one of the continent's largest banks, was partly nationalized on Monday. The country of Belgium agreed to purchase the bank's...

Stock markets across Asia had a dismal performance a day after the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its biggest single-day drop in nearly three years. Asian stock markets started the week off on a positive note, rising after news broke that President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders had...

From Bloomberg: The Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index has stalled near its recession average as the Dow Jones Industrial Average has risen 83 percent from a 12-year low in March 2009. A tight correlation between the index and Dow that lasted more than two decades has broken down as joblessness...

Apparently, the Dow is taking this whole “115th birthday” thing a little too far, as traders across the world line up to give the index one birthday spanking after another. The index is down slightly today, allowing use of a pun that's been floating around the office all week. Other than, say, a...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above the 12000 level today, a level not reached since March 14. Thus far, the Dow has risen almost 200 points, or 1.7%. The merger of AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile USA attributed to the Dow's climb, as well as helping to push up shares of Verizon...