While the first Dow component report until Alcoa issues its latest results Thursday, Yum!
Alcoa is traditionally seen as kicking off the earnings season, being the first Dow component to report earnings.
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After the close Alcoa became the first Dow component to issue its quarterly report, booking a profit of 6 cents per share.
The last bull market, which ended in October 2007, continued for a year after its first Dow record, rising 21% in that period.
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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The first Dow Jones headline said that a Greek exit could trigger a domino effect, and lead to other countries, such as Ireland, Portugal and other weakened countries leaving the E.
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According to the ETF Finder, GOOG is the top holding, with 10.88% of the portfolio, of the First Trust Dow Jones Internet Index Fund (FDN).
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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Be that as it may, remember all the hoopla when the Dow first broke 10K?
The Dow first hit 1, 000 way back in 1966 at the peak of a great bull market.
Alcoa, the first of the Dow stocks to report, will release its earnings after the close today.
The first is whether Dow Chemical is liable for Dow Corning's products.
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Bespoke chose May 3, 1999 as a start date to measure the stocks because it marks the first time the Dow Jones Industrial passed 11, 000.
As a sign of how quickly the recent gains have come, the Dow first cleared the 14000 level in July 2007, as the housing-fueled stock rally was reaching its peak.
It was then that the Dow first passed 1, 000, and while there were periods in the ensuing 16 years during which 1, 000 was breached, the average never rose above a grand for good until 1982.
While making her first professional steps, Dow says she quickly came across an innate gender inequality built into law.
The first example comparing the Dow Industrials and Transports is from 1980.
For the first time since 2009 the Dow Jones industrial average is shuffling its ranks.
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The string of triple-digit losses is the Dow's first such slide since September.
Or take Carly Fiorina, who on becoming CEO of H-P in 1999 became the first female CEO of a Dow Jones 30 company.
The gains came to cap off a week that started in rocky fashion, as the Dow suffered its first triple-digit loss of 2013 Monday.
Last week, the Dow suffered its first weekly stumble in four weeks amid concerns about the Fed withdrawing its stimulus, and whether similar efforts by the Bank of Japan would be effective.
"This is another negative indication on top of the missing Santa Claus Rally, a down First Five Days and the Dow closing below its December closing low on January 21 triggering the December Low Indicator, " says Hirsh, who adds that the market is completing a two-year bearish "three peaks and a domed house" pattern coined by technical analyst George Lindsay.
The Dow had its best first quarter in 15 years, climbing 11 percent.
While 28 of 30 Dow stocks enjoyed a first-quarter rally, Caterpillar and Alcoa found themselves in the red.
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For the first three weeks of September the Dow went down 1.3%.
The Dow Jones industrial average first touched 10, 000 on March 16, 1999.
Pattern Recognition: Spotting Comeback Stocks : In 1884 Charles Dow published the very first stock market average composed of closing prices of eleven stocks: nine railroad companies and two manufacturing firms.
While still only one-fourth the size of the U.S. venture capital market, China deal making growth far exceeds the action in the U.S. For the first three months of 2011, Dow Jones VentureSource reported U.S. gains of 5 percent for deals and 35 percent for investment.
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