Why Does the Stock Market Crash? | Stocks 101 Explained, with Brian Feroldi
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average
The dow jones industrial average is one of the most widely known market indicees in the world. It's when a group of stocks, the their price changes on any given day, are collaborated together to give investors an idea of what happened with that market. The s and p 500 was created in the 19 fifties because computers could start to do the math. A new stock exchange wanted to create its own stock market index, and they created the nasdak composite. And like any capitalist society, another company called standard and pores looked at what dow jones was doing and said, hey, want to make our own indices. So they went on to create what would become the
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