

US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account (JPM) are among the leading companies in the Dow today. The Dow now reflects the fact that the United States economy is more about tech, consumer goods and financial services as opposed to manufacturing. (PFE), have recently been replaced in the blue chip average. Throughout the past century, the Dow has been home to major American industrial icons. It expanded to its current membership level of 30 firms in 1928. The Dow first launched in 1896 with just a dozen companies. Goldman Sachs, the Dow's top stock of 2021, continues to impressīut the Dow, which is now up 18% this year, is still arguably the most famous measure of the ups and downs on Wall Street. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images Michael Nagle/Bloomberg/Getty Images After a year of Zoom meetings and awkward virtual happy hours, New York's youngest aspiring financiers have returned to the offices of the city's investment banks, where they're making the most of the in-person mentoring and networking they've lacked during the pandemic. headquarters in New York, U.S., on Thursday, July 22, 2021. The market tumbled again after the 9/11 terrorist attacks led to a recession.Īn office worker walks toward the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Stocks plummeted in the final months of 2000 as the dot-com bubble burst. In their book, Glassman and Hassett argued that the Dow could hit 36,000 as soon as 2005. Hassett most recently served as a senior White House economic adviser to President Donald Trump.) (Glassman, whose journalism career includes a stint as moderator of CNN’s Capital Gang in the mid 1990s, now runs a public affairs consulting firm. The Dow was hovering just above 10,000 when their book, “Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market” was published. The Dow 36K prediction was first made by journalist James Glassman and economist Kevin Hassett in October 1999. But for some, the Dow 36,000 vigil has been going on for 22 years. Investors had to wait only a little more than three months for the Dow to climb from its last thousand-point milestone – 35,000 – to this one. On Monday it had briefly risen above 36,000 but didn’t end the day there. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 36,000 mark for the first time Tuesday following a gain of about 140 points, or 0.4%.
