Dow Jones Indices

Dow Jones & Company

Famous for indices and the The Wall Street Journal

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The company which produces the famous indices was founded in 1882 by three reporters: Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser.

Dow Jones & Company, is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol DJ, publishes the world's most vital business and financial news and information. The company says that since 1882, the Dow Jones name has been synonymous with accuracy, integrity and trust.

Like The NY Times and the Washington Post, the company is traded but privately controlled. The company is led by the Bancroft family, and is not the subsidiary of a multinational corporation. The flagship publication, The Wall Street Journal, is a newspaper covering USA and international business and financial news and issues. It began publishing on July 8, 1889. Founded in 1889 by Charles Henry Dow, Edward Davis Jones and Charles Milford Bergstresser, co-founders of Dow Jones & Company, The Wall Street Journal, the flagship publication of Dow Jones, is the world's leading business publication. With a print and online circulation of nearly 2.1 million, the Journal reaches the nation's top business and political leaders, as well as investors across the country.

Holding 31 Pulitzer Prizes for outstanding journalism, the Journal seeks to help its readers succeed by providing essential and relevant information, presented fairly and accurately, from a dependable and trusted source.

The Wall Street Journal print franchise has more than 600 journalists world-wide, part of the Dow Jones network of nearly 1,900 business and financial news staff in bureaus across the globe. Other publications that are part of The Wall Street Journal franchise, with a total circulation of 2.7 million, include The Wall Street Journal Asia; The Wall Street Journal Europe; and The Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com. A complement to the print Journal, the Online Journal is the largest paid subscription news site on the Web — with 768,000 paid subscribers as of the fourth quarter of 2005.

In broadcasting, Dow Jones provides news content to CNBC in the USA. It produces two shows for radio, The Wall Street Journal Report and Dow Jones Money Report.

The name of the company is also best known for several widely used stock market indices, among them:

Dow Jones Composite Average
Dow Jones Global Titans
Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA, "Dow Jones 30," or often simply "the Dow")
Dow Jones Transportation Average
Dow Jones Utility Average
Dow Jones U.S. Large Cap Growth
Dow Jones U.S. Large Cap Value
Dow Jones U.S. Small Cap Growth
Dow Jones U.S. Small Cap Value
Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index
Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes

The Dow Jones Composite Average is a stock index tracking 65 prominent companies. Most of the companies listed in the average trade higher or lower based on the strength of the economy, therefore are "cyclical" companies. The average's components are every stock from the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Dow Jones Transportation Average, and the Dow Jones Utility Average.

The Dow Jones Global Titans Indices were created to reflect the globalization of international blue chip securities in the wake of mergers and the creation of mega-corporations. They are large-cap companies with at least some of their operations outside of their domestic markets. The Dow Jones Global Titans 50 Index is a float-adjusted index of 50 of the largest-capitalization and best known blue chip companies trading on the New York Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, Euronext, American Stock Exchange and Tokyo Stock Exchange.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is one of several stock market indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company founder Charles Dow. Dow compiled the index as a way to gauge the performance of industrial component of America's stock markets.The oldest continuing USA market index. First published in May, 1896, the DJIA represented the average of twelve stocks from various important American industries. Of those original twelve, only General Electric remains part of the average.

The Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Total Stock Market Index, also known as the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Composite Index or simply the Wilshire 5000: A broad base stock market index often used to represent the entire USA stock market.

The company produces speciality indexes such as CBOE DJIA BuyWrite

CBOE DJIA Volatility, DJ Euro Currency, Indexes, DJ EURO STOXX 50 Volatility, Corporate Bond, DJ-AIG Commodity, DJ Bahrain Index, DJ-CBOT Treasury , DJ-Hedge Fund BPI, DJ Select MicroCap Index, Internet, Islamic Markets, Dow Jones Citigroup Sukuk Index, DJ-RHB Islamic, Malaysia Index, MicroSector, DJ Precious Metals, REIT, DJ Australia LPT, U.S. REIT, Select Dividend, Sustainability, Dow Jones Recovered Papers Index, Dow Jones Steel Index

http://www.dj.com/ website of the company

http://www.djindexes.com/mdsidx/ Indice website of company

Dow Jones & Company
1 World Financial Center
200 Liberty Street
New York, N.Y. 10281
212-416-2000

Trivia

Dowism can be both a misspelling and a humorous term. It is also used to represent the pronunciation of the Chinese philosophy Taoism, or, in the more modern pinyin spelling Daoism. Used as a derivative of Dow Jones, the term was applied by columnist and radio personality Steve Bhaerman under the pseudonym Swami Beyondananda in his Marxist analysis of the stock market, Duck Soup for the Soul (ISBN 1887166289): He "moved to New York to study Dowism with the noted stock market guru Yuan Tibet".

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