The Dow Jones Industrial Average consists of 30 stocks of large, stable, blue-chip companies, who are thought to represent the US economy as a whole. The DJIA includes:
Company Symbol
3M MMM
Alcoa AA
AT & T T
American Express AXP
Bank of America BAC
Boeing Company BA
Caterpillar CAT
Cisco Systems CSCO
Chevron Corp. CVX
Coca Cola KO
Du Pont DD
Exxon Mobil XOM
Hewlett Packard HPQ
Home Depot HD
Intel Corp. INTC
IBM IBM
JP Morgan Chase JPM
Johnson & Johnson JNJ
Kraft Foods KFT
McDonalds MCD
Merck MRK
Microsoft MSFT
Pfizer PFE
Proctor & Gamble PG
Travelers Ins. TRV
United Technologies UTX
Verizon Comm. VZ
Wal-Mart WMT
Walt Disney Co. DIS
This information is available on Yahoo! or Google Finance under the components link located on the information page of the Doe Jones Industrial Average.
The symbol for the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the Scottrade system is DJI or $DJI
There is not really a stock symbol for the Dow Jones Industrial Average as it is simply an average composed of (and tracks) 30 different large/diverse American companies. However, there is a symbol/security that tracks the Dow Jones Industrial Average and moves in direct correlation with it, and that is "DIA". Basically speaking, if the Dow Jones goes up 1%, then the DIA will be up 1%.
There is not really a stock symbol for the Dow Jones Industrial Average as it is simply an average composed of (and tracks) 30 different large/diverse American companies. However, there is a symbol/security that tracks the Dow Jones Industrial Average and moves in direct correlation with it, and that is "DIA". Basically speaking, if the Dow Jones goes up 1%, then the DIA will be up 1%.
Most chart programs will use this symbol: $INDU
Most chart programs will use this symbol: $INDU
Yes, you can buy the DOW under the symbol DIA (AKA DIAMONDS) .
Dow Jones is less commonly known as Dow Jones Industrial Common. Dow Jones is a stock market index, created by Charles Henry Dow.
The ticker symbol for E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (DuPont) is DD and it is traded on the New York stock Exchange. DDPRA is the symbol for their preferred stock DDPRB is the symbol for additional preferred stock
Dow-Jones is just a list of stocks. Stock prices drop when someone tries to sell some and he has to lower his price to get someone else to buy.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was created on May 26, 1896 and is named after Charles Dow and Edward Jones.
Charles Dow was the co founder of Dow Jones News.
http://finance.Yahoo.com/q/cp?s=^DJI Go there. Export to spreadsheet. Option @ bottom of page. R.