Dow Jones Company
It is an American financial firm which provides services in business and other related content. The Dow Jones company has a staff of around 7000 and an additional 1900 in delivering business and other financial news. The approximate company Revenue and Net income and revenues are as follows: The Dow Jones Industrial Average, also called the DJIA, Dow 30, or informally the “Dow Jones” or The Dow is the best-known and most widely followed market indicator in the world. It tracks the performance of 30 blue chip US stocks.
Also to be noted are the Dow Jones Transportation and Utility average. The latest Index Value of the DJIA as of 13th February 2008 is 12552. The Transportation Average is 4775 and utility Average is 504.
Highest and lowest benchmarks of Dow and Jones: On March 29. 1999, is the first time DJ closes above the 10000 mark. On 17. 3. 2000 DJ achieves the biggest one day gain of 499 points. January 14, 2000 DJ reaches an all time high 11723. On September 17, 2001 the biggest one day fall of 685 points. On October 3, 2006 DJ exceeds January 14th high.
A new all time high of 14164 on October 9, 2007. NASDAQ Created in 1971, the NASDAQ (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System) was the world’s first electronic stock market. The NASDAQ is a computerized system that facilitates trading and provides price quotations on some 5,000 of the more actively traded over-the-counter stocks. A summary of the Revenue, Earnings per share is summarized in the following table: Similar to the Dow Jones industrial Average NASDAQ has its own stock market index known as the NASDAQ composite.
In addition to this there is the NASDAQ 100 index. The NASDAQ market share as of 31st December, 2007 consists of $17. 3 billion dollars, a 45. 4% market share holder, a trade volume 69. 7 million and a dollar volume of $548. 4 billion. A NASDAQ market classification into Global Select Market with 1156 issuers, the Global Market with 1478 issuers and Capital Market with 501 issuers. A comparison of NASDAQ with the NYSE shows on average the orders in NASDAQ listed stocks receive faster executions than orders in comparable NYSE-listed stocks. As also,
Average effective spreads for NASDAQ-listed stocks are better than their NYSE-listed comparables. Lower effective spreads mean lower trading costs for investors. Also a high price improvement ratio of 7. 3% is observed in contrast with 1. 7% of NYSE.
References
- Dow Jones performance chart http://finance. yahoo. com/q/bc? s=%5EDJI;t=my;l=off;z=l;q=l;c= http://www. the-privateer. com/chart/dow-long. html
- Chart of DJIA for the last few decades: http://www. gherrity. org/djia. html http://www. dowjones. com/TheCompany/FactSheets. htm
- All NASDAQ related information: http://www. nasdaq. com
