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Who was the founder of the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
Charles Dow Jones
When was the Dow Jones Company created?
November 1882
How many stocks were initially used to distribute information about the Do w Average?
Rail Road and two steam ships
What publication was used to distribute information about the Dow Average?
runners delivered the customers Dow Letter
How much ddi an annual subscription to the Wall Street Journal cost?
5 dollars
What impact did WWI have on the New York Stock Exchange?
Courts closed wall street then reopened few days latter
What buying practice caused the Dow Average to grow in the 1920's?
Margin, put down ten percent, which controlled the other ninety percent
What caused Joseph Kennedy to pull out of the NYSE before the crash of 1929?
A shoe shine boy was talking to him about stocks
What New Deal program did FDR start to regulate the stock market?
Securities exchange commission's
Who is credited with pulling the United States out of the Great Depression?
Hitler, WWII
When did the Dow Average reach 1000?
1972
How did computers and inflation affect the stock market?
computers were set to sell
How long did it take for the Dow Average to bounce back from the crash of 1887?`
two and a half years
What New protections were put into the exchange after the 87 crash?
circuit breakers
What is the only original Dow Average company that still exists?
General Electrics
What was the first Dow Average?What is the average today?
69.4 and 12850 points
The market drops from what?
from different cause, but the time is not different
1980's cheaters
Micheal Mikon and Ivan Buesky
Micheal Mikon
junk bonds
Ivan Buesky
insider trading, info illegally obtained for investments
Dow point average in 1986, 1994
2000 and 4000
wwii
everyone working and earning a pay check, nothing to spend on
trend analysis
military conflict, January effect, history repeats itself
barometer
measures air pressure just as it measures the inflation and condition of the stock market
speculators
dishonest manipulators

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