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How Many Companies Are in the Dow Composite to Day?
Why are we measuring by points rather than percentages? I know sometimes you use both, but why is the preference always around points? The total of points that the index goes up and down really doesn't matter all that much. What's far more irrelevant is the percentage gain in the index on any given day. So if you were a head line writer, what would more interesting? The daw was up 80 points to day, or the daw wasup zero point two five % to day?