Ongoing tariff fears and souring consumer sentiment are also pushing stocks lower.

That said, when comparing the value of the DJIA over time, many financial sites, as we have done above, use an inflation-adjustment calculator such as the U.S. Bureau of Labor's CPI since this ...

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auto loans and credit cards—should go down over time. U.S. stock indexes like the Dow Jones measure how the market is performing. If stocks are down, it signals trouble within the nation's economy.

Nevertheless, over time, higher-priced stocks in the Dow have tended to correlate with higher market capitalizations. The actual calculation of the DJIA performance is more complex than this.

The Dow Jones tumbled back below 42,500 on Wednesday ... While re-rerouting of trade will decrease the effectiveness of tariffs over time, the current level is already close to the highest ...

But certain companies, like Dow Jones Industrial Average component McDonald's (NYSE: MCD), have been immune from broader market jitters. In fact, McDonald's is up over 10% YTD at the time of this ...

Concerns over trade restrictions with China and comments by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell helped send the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) lower by 0.2%, or 64 points, Wednesday.

The DJIA was first published on May 26 ... the individual component stocks and then dividing that figure by 12. Over time, the index changed. By 1916, the index included the stocks of 20 companies ...

Dow Jones tracks 30 large U.S. companies, providing a snapshot of market health. Investors can't buy Dow stock but can invest via ETFs or shares of Dow companies. The Dow is price-weighted ...