Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), is a stock market index, and one of several indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow. Recent report, Dow Jones Industrial Average ended up 96 points at 12,226. The Nasdaq Composite was up 1.2 points at 2,782 and S&P 500 index rose 7 points at 1,327 on Monday.
Now, Dow Jones is owned by the CME Group, which is the majority owner of Dow Jones Indexes. The average is named after Dow and one of his business associates, statistician Edward Jones. It is an index that shows how 30 large, publicly owned companies based in the United States have traded during a standard trading session in the stock market. It is the second oldest U.S. market index after the Dow Jones Transportation Average, which was also created by Dow.
Other news, Dow Jones Economic Sentiment Indicator aims to predict the health of the U.S. economy by analyzing the coverage of 15 major daily newspapers in the U.S. The ESI examines every article in each of the newspapers for positive and negative sentiment about the economy using a proprietary algorithm and derived data technology. The indicator is calculated through Dow Jones Insight, a media tracking and analysis tool.
The technology used for the ESI also powers Dow Jones Lexicon, a proprietary dictionary that allows traders and analysts to determine sentiment, frequency and other relevant complex patterns within news to develop predictive trading strategies.
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