Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is thirty large American companies averaged by share price, not by size, since 1896. A four hundred dollar stock moves it more than a forty dollar one, whatever each company is worth. That is why the Dow is the number headlines quote while the S&P 500 is what money is measured against.
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