The Nasdaq, the US' technology index, plummeted by 39.3% last year - the biggest drop in its history - and the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 6.2% - its first loss in 10 years.
It is the third consecutive quarterly loss for Alcoa, a component of the widely-followed Dow Jones Industrial Average, but the company's improving fortunes cheered shareholders.
The tech-laden Nasdaq composite shed 1.4 percent to 1, 803.87, while the blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average slid more than 3 percent, or 289.68 points, to hit 9, 197.32.
Boeing finished Tuesday with a 3.4% gain after announcing a third-quarter target for first delivery of its delayed 787 Dreamliner, helping lift the price-weighted Dow Jones industrial average 51 points to 11, 838.
This drop--coupled with the Dow Jones Industrial Average's decline of more than 100 points early in the day--is the latest evidence of the disconnect between consumer confidence gauges and actual economic data (see " False Notes On Confidence").
Since 1965, a portfolio of No. 1-ranked stocks, updated annually, would have outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 15-to-1.
Aluminum-maker Alcoa, the first of the 30 Dow Jones industrial average components to report first-quarter earnings, recorded sharply higher profits from a year ago on growing global demand for its products in material in commercial construction and aerospace.
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Only once--after the president's address to the nation Sept. 24--has the Dow Jones industrial average finished in positive territory when trading resumed following his remarks.
But I believe there are segments below the Dow Jones Industrial Average - the lower levels of the large-cap, the mid-cap and small-cap stocks - where the fundamentals are really robust.
From 1950-2010 the Dow Jones Industrial Average returned 7.4% on average from November 1 through April 30, compared to a 0.4% average for being invested in only the May 1 to October 31 period.
But Sullivan argues in his recent newsletter that there is another historically accurate pattern that would keep you all in on stocks, especially big Dow Jones Industrial Average-sized stocks (note that Grantham and Ken Fisher love the very biggest blue chip stocks).
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Alcoa will provide the informal kickoff to first-quarter earnings season Monday afternoon as the first Dow Jones industrial average component to report figures for the January-March period.
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By late-afternoon trading the Dow Jones industrial average rose 55.93, or 0.4%, to 13, 025.47.
Thanks to a last-minute run-up, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed the day at 13275.20, about four points from its highest level since December 2007.
By mid-week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had gained 13% from its low at the end of August, leaving it only 9% below its July peak.
The exclusion of financials sets the index apart, as does the inclusion of companies that are not US-based (the Dow Jones Industrial Average for instance only covers companies based in the United States).
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Based on Charles Dow 's century-old method of using technical analysis of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Dow Transports to confirm bull or bear markets, Moroney has been a bull since early March.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, more commonly known as the Dow Jones is an index based on 30 large-cap stocks.
The strategy says investors should start the year by purchasing the 10 highest-yielding components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Nor have we ever gotten back to the all-time peak of the Dow Jones industrial average of 1410, set in October, 2007.
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Even February 27th's 400-point fall in the Dow Jones Industrial Average came low down the historical league table of percentage daily falls.
The daily triple-digit moves of the Dow Jones Industrial Average have kept the media scrambling to find new hyperboles to describe the action.
The year-end rally in the Dow Jones Transportation Average pushed it to a higher yearly close, but the yearly range was tight with support at 4795.40.
Fellow Dow Jones industrial average component Wal-Mart rose 1.1%, after the company said it will pay its next dividend Dec. 27, rather than Jan. 2 as planned.
The announcement comes on the same day the Big Board dipped to its lowest point of the year, with a 115-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average.
The Walt Disney Co. (DIS) joins the earnings parade after the close of trading this afternoon, with Wall Street analysts looking for a modest year-over-year improvement from the Dow Jones Industrial Average component.
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The company said Wednesday that the U.S. economy likely added only 64, 000 jobs in November, an estimate that went unnoticed by investors caught up in the exuberance of a nearly 500-point gain on the Dow Jones Industrial Average .
AMD, which warned of a decline in second-quarter sales, dove 11.2% and dragged much of the tech sector along with it, as fellow chipmaker Intel slumped 2.3% to be the third-worst performer in the Dow Jones industrial average.
Since that day, regulators from both the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have been trying to piece together how a flood of early afternoon selling in stock futures and in stocks themselves led to a momentary 998-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average.
He's well known as a proponent of the "dogs of the Dow" strategy, which focuses on the highest-yielding (and usually unglamorous) stocks of the Dow Jones industrial average.
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