T he Dow Jones Industrial Average held a modest gain Friday in mixed action among the major stock indexes. In the stock ...

Value-hunters with big stakes in a particular component kept one of the main U.S. equity indexes in positive territory.

U.S. index futures traded on a lackluster note early Monday after the major averages recorded weekly gains in the past week. The uncertainty surrounding the Russia-Ukraine war, following the Alaska ...

The Dow’s current form is based largely on changes during the 20th century. In 1916, the index went from a collection of 12 stocks to 20. In 1928, it increased to 30 stocks, where it remains ...

Q: What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average anyway? A: It’s a venerable U.S. stock-market index that Charles Dow invented in 1896. It comprises 30 stocks, which the selection committee ...

The stock with the fifth-highest weighting the Dow Jones Industrial Average is biotech company Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN). Amgen's roughly $323 share price as of Feb. 2 equates to about 2,130 ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average became the first major U.S. stock index to set a record since the Federal Reserve started raising interest rates. Investors on Wednesday drove the blue-chip ...

In the Dow Jones Industrial Average, 28 of the 30 stocks pay out dividends. The average dividend yield of the 30 companies is 2% with the 10 highest averaging a yield of 3.5%.

Dow Jones Industrial Average vs. S&P 500 The Dow and the S&P 500 are probably the two most well-known stock market indexes, but there are a couple of key differences between the two.

US stocks were mixed on Friday as Wall Street tempered its rate-cut hopes amid economic data this week that showed ...