Thursday, 19 July 2007

Dow Average's Historical Milestones, Including Today's Close Above 14,000

(Bloomberg) -- The following table lists historical
milestones for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which closed
above 14,000 today for the first time.

1884: Charles Dow and Edward Jones introduce a stock-market
average in the ``Customer's Afternoon Letter,'' a forerunner of
the Wall Street Journal. The gauge consists mainly of railroads.


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