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What is Dow Jones?

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An index made up of 30 large, established US companies. It uses an old method of weighting by share price rather than market capitalization, so stocks with high share prices have an outsized influence. As a result, it has limits as a gauge of the whole US market.

Dow Jonesan older index of 30 large US blue chips

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