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Dow

[dou, doh] / daʊ, doʊ /


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Futures for the S&P 500 were down 0.3%, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.2%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was lower, but barely, with a 0.2% loss.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

Chip design company Marvell Technology was also up more than 9% after S&P Dow Jones Indices announced on Friday that it would join the S&P 500.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 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

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




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