The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is the most widely followed benchmark of stock market performance, containing value changes for stocks of 30 large corporations.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is an index that tracks the stock prices of 30 significant publicly traded companies on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the NASDAQ. It serves as a key indicator of the performance of the industrial sector and the overall U.S. stock market.
A Flash Crash refers to a very sudden and severe drop in security prices, followed by a quick recovery. The term is most famously associated with the nearly 1,000-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) on May 6, 2010.
