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The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a benchmark of the U.S. stock market.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is a stock market index that measures the stock performance of 30 large, publicly owned companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ. The DJIA was created by Charles Dow in 1896 and is one of the oldest and most widely followed stock market indices in the world.

The DJIA is a price-weighted index, which means that the price of each stock in the index is multiplied by the number of shares outstanding to calculate the index's value. The DJIA is calculated by summing the prices of all 30 stocks in the index and dividing the total by a divisor. The divisor is adjusted periodically to maintain the index's continuity. The DJIA has been used as a barometer of the U.S. stock market for over 100 years and is often used to measure the overall health of the economy.