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- The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is named after Charles Dow and Edward Jones.
- Initially the Dow was an index consisting of mostly railroad stocks but today it consists of 30 stocks in various sectors ranging from finance and telecom to hardware stores and fast food. The Dow 30 are:
- 3M (MMM)
- Alcoa (AA)
- American Express (AXP)
- AT&T (T)
- Bank of America (BAC)
- Boeing (BA)
- Caterpillar (CAT)
- Chevron (CVX)
- Cisco (CSCO)
- Coca-Cola (KO)
- DuPont (DD)
- Exxon Mobil (XOM)
- General Electric (GE)
- Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)
- Home Depot (HD)
- Intel (INTC)
- IBM (IBM)
- Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
- JP Morgan Chase (JPM)
- Kraft Foods (KFT)
- McDonalds (MCD)
- Merck (MRK)
- Microsoft (MSFT)
- Pfizer (PFE)
- Procter & Gamble (PG)
- Travelers (TRV)
- United Technologies (UTX)
- Verizon (VZ)
- Walmart (WMT)
- Walt Disney (DIS)
- The DOW Jones industrials has had numerous crashes over the years. Some of them include:
- The Great Crash of 1929
- Oil Crisis of 1973
- Black Monday 1987
- dot-Com Bubble in 2000
- Real Estate Crash of 2008
- Flash Crash of 2010
- End of Quantitative Easing Crash of 2011
The major stock market crashes are listed on wikipedia. Read up on technical analysis and learn to predict stock market crashes on your own!