the Dow
noun
US
: the daily average of the stock prices of a group of large American companies : the Dow-Jones industrial average
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The Nasdaq 100 is up 9% in May, and the Dow is up 3% in a month.
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Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 28 May 2026
Lam will join The Times on June 8 as a multiplatform editing intern through the Dow Jones News Fund.
—Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026
Once relatively niche, sports tourism has gone up with the Dow.
—Leah Faye Cooper, Vanity Fair, 22 May 2026
Two months before that, Intel had been removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average and replaced by Nvidia.
—Bryce Hoffman, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
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Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 28 May 2026
Lam will join The Times on June 8 as a multiplatform editing intern through the Dow Jones News Fund.
—Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026
Once relatively niche, sports tourism has gone up with the Dow.
—Leah Faye Cooper, Vanity Fair, 22 May 2026
Two months before that, Intel had been removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average and replaced by Nvidia.
—Bryce Hoffman, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
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