The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is also known simply as “The Dow”. The Dow is a stock market index that tracks 30 large, publicly-owned blue-chip companies.
Some of the stocks included in the Dow are Coca Cola, IBM, Johnson $ Johnson, McDonalds, and Walmart.
At the time of this posting, the Dow was trading down 33 points in pre-market at 31,433.
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