What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Should You Care?

Discussion in 'Educational Resources' started by LearningMarkets, Aug 19, 2008.

  1. LearningMarkets

    LearningMarkets ET Sponsor

    Every night on the evening news (or all day long if you tune into a cable business news channel like CNBC or Fox Business), you will hear commentators talking about the Dow Jones Industrial Average either by its full name or one of its shorter nicknames---the Dow Jones 30 or the Dow. Somehow as we are listening to the talking heads, we all seem to know that we are supposed to be happy when we hear that the Dow is rising and that we are supposed to be sad when we hear that the Dow is falling, but why? What on earth is the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and why should we care---or should we?

    Check out the three-part series covering the following:

    - What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average (Part 1)

    http://www.learningmarkets.com/inde...-1&catid=34:getting-started-stocks&Itemid=144

    - Why you should care about the Dow (Part 2)

    http://www.learningmarkets.com/inde...-2&catid=34:getting-started-stocks&Itemid=144

    - Why you shouldn't care about the Dow (Part 3)