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9 unusual facts about Dow Jones Industrial Average


Alexandre Arrechea

For the 10th Havana Biennial (March 27 – April 30, 2009), Alexandre Arrechea worked on a project named La habitación de todos (The Room of All), which is a sculpture of a house that expands or contracts according to, respectively, the rise or fall of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Ann Livermore

Insiders say Livermore was the only internal candidate who made the short list but in July 1999 HP made the former Lucent Technologies executive Carly Fiorina the first female CEO of a Dow 30 company.

Contrarian investing

When purchasing the stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average that have the highest relative dividend yield, an investor is often buying many of the "distressed" companies among those 30 stocks.

CyberSource

Over 400,000 businesses worldwide use CyberSource, including half the companies comprising the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Economic consequences of the 2006 Thai coup d'état

Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq composite trimmed losses by the close Tuesday after a tough session hurt by discouraging comments from Yahoo! and revived worries about the economy following a big drop in housing starts.

Friday the 13th mini-crash

By the time the closing bell rang, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 190.58 points, or 6.91 percent, to 2,569.26.

Islamic economic jurisprudence

In June 2005, the Dow Jones Indexes in New York and RHB Securities in Kuala Lumpur teamed up to launch a new "Islamic Malaysia Index"—a collection of 45 stocks representing Malaysian companies that comply with a variety of Sharia-based requirements.

Russian Trading System

The RTS Index, RTSI, the official Exchange indicator, first calculated on September 1, 1995, is similar in function to the Dow Jones Average in New York City.

Universal life insurance

Additionally, there is the recent addition of index universal life contracts similar to equity-indexed annuities credit interest linked to the positive movement of an index, such as the S&P 500, Russell 2000, and the Dow Jones.


Contract for difference

Trading index CFDs, such as the ones based on the major global indexes e.g. Dow Jones, NASDAQ, S&P 500, FTSE, DAX, and CAC, quickly became the most popular type of CFD that were traded.

Roger M. Milgrim

Milgrim has served on the boards of directors of Technip (a Paris-based NYSE-Euronext major international engineering firm, which is one of the CAC 40 public companies, the French equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average), Coflexip-Stenna, and on the boards of not for profits, such as The Fulbright Association and The Brooklyn Hospital.

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