Dow Jones: 30 Stocks, an economy make (Podcast #021)

by Joshua Hwang on October 27, 2008

Dow Jones. Dow Jones. Dow Jones! Aaaah!!!!!111

Why all this talk of Dow Jones? He's not so great. What about good ol' Nasdaq or the lovely couple S&P 500?

To be frank, I wasn't really sure what the Dow Jones exactly was until recently.

But now we can all know about it, in only 90 seconds.

Dow Jones: 30 Stocks, an economy make (Podcast #021)

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Sources / Further Reading:
Investopedia: Calculating The Dow Jones Industrial Average
AP via Google: Meltdown 101: The Dow Jones industrial average
Wikipedia: Dow Jones Industrial Average

[tags]Dow Jones, DJIA, stock market, economics[/tags]

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