the Dow

noun

US
: the daily average of the stock prices of a group of large American companies : the Dow-Jones industrial average

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For the headline index of consumer sentiment, the gauge was at 60.5, well ahead of the Dow Jones estimate for 54 and a 15.9% increase from a month ago. Jeff Cox, CNBC, 13 June 2025 The decade of the 1970s was one such period, with the Dow falling below 600 in 1973, and still under 800 by 1982. Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025 Since the start of the year, the Dow Jones U.S. Airlines Index is down 13%. Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025 But public sentiment did not rebound as quickly as the Dow. Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for the Dow

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