How to Use the Dow in a Sentence

the Dow

noun
  • But the damage was short-lived: Within a year, the Dow was back to pre-crash levels.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 16 May 2024
  • And some of the companies that were still among that blue chip average are no longer in the Dow.
    Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Like the Dow transports, small-cap stocks tend to rise and fall with economic cycles.
    Krystal Hur, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Only three of those companies are in the Dow Jones index.
    Rafael Nam, NPR, 16 May 2024
  • Pressing on this app shows data on the Dow Jones average and various stocks.
    Mark Goldstein, STAT, 22 Sep. 2023
  • That sent the Dow tumbling more than 300 points at its lowest point on Thursday, before paring losses.
    Krystal Hur, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Nonetheless a rally in technology shares can still have a spillover impact on the Dow.
    Rafael Nam, NPR, 16 May 2024
  • Violent crime has dropped to nearly a fifty-year low, unemployment is below four per cent, and in January the S. & P. 500 and the Dow hit record highs.
    Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • For all the excitement about tech stocks this year, an old-economy stock has powered the most gains in the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the past 12 months.
    WSJ, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The stock is up again today in early trading, on what is shaping up to be an overall green-territory day for the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 indices.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
  • At one point, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 1,200 points, on a day when equity markets tumbled across the globe.
    Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Apple, Intel and Microsoft are some of the newer-economy names currently in the Dow.
    Stan Choe, Fortune, 18 May 2024
  • Media and entertainment shares are having a great day as are markets with the Dow, S&P and Russell 2000 all decisively on the upswing.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 16 July 2024
  • The prospect of further rate hikes helped send the Dow Jones industrial average tumbling nearly 700 points Tuesday.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
  • On the other hand, the Dow Jones Industrial Average registered a winning week, up 0.8%.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 26 July 2024
  • Shares of Boeing, a component of the Dow Jones industrial average, were down about 2% in premarket trading on the guidance.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Overjoyed economists began prognosticating as many as six rate cuts in 2024, which resulted in the Dow Jones shooting up to record levels and the bulls claiming a recession had been definitively avoided.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 7 May 2024
  • Exxon Mobil was kicked out of the Dow Jones industrial average, and some European oil companies announced plans to pivot from fossil fuels to renewables more quickly.
    Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The presence of the chemical has generated numerous lawsuits over the years by water suppliers against the Dow Chemical and Shell Oil companies, accusing the manufacturers of failing to warn people of the risks.
    Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • All three major stock indexes for example, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average, have hit record highs recently.
    David Gura, NPR, 5 Mar. 2024

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