So far this year, the Dow has lost nearly 9 percent.

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The Dow has lost more than 200 points in two days.

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More than a century after Charles Dow came up with the idea of tracking the market--at that time it was essentially a bunch of railroad companies and manufacturing firms--the Dow has lost its fizz.

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Over the last year, the Dow Jones Utility Index has lost 30% of its value.

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The Dow Jones industrial average in that time has lost about 2.8%.

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But he has written down the value of Dow Jones, owner of the Wall Street Journal - and he lost a fortune on the sale of MySpace, one of the original social networks.

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Meanwhile, the Real Dow (the Dow divided by the price of gold), which lost 0.65% on September 13, has continued to fall.

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