Meaning DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE: The best known U.S. index of stocks. A price-weighted average of 30 actively traded blue-chip stocks, primarily industrials including, stocks that trade on the New York Stock Exchange. The Dow, as it is called, is a barometer of how shares of the largest U.S. companies are performing. There are hundreds of investment indexes around the world for stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities
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- Definition Dividend:
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- Definition Double Taxation:
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- Definition Direct Overhead:
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- Definition Direct Placement:
- Examples Selling a new issue not by offering it for sale publicly, but by placing it with one of several institutional investors dow jones industrial average abbreviation.
