Dow Jones

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The S&P 500 added 0.3%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.2%, or 81 points.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

S&P Dow Jones Indices, which oversees the S&P 500, has a host of criteria External link including market value, domicile, profitability and corporate structure.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 81 points—about 0.2%—to close at 50,786.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

The tech-heavy Nasdaq tumbled 4.2% on Friday, its worst daily decline since April 10, 2025, according to Dow Jones Market Data, and its worst week since April.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

This is profitability even by modern Wall Street standards: if the Dow Jones average had risen a similar amount since World War II, the index would now stand at over twenty thousand.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro