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Dow

Dow refers to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a stock market index that tracks the daily price of shares of stock of 30 large publicly-owned companies sold on the US stock exchanges. (noun)

An example of the Dowis a stock market index that was named after Charles Dow, the Wall Street Journal editor, and Edward Jones, a statistician.

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Dow, Gerard Gerard Dou

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(dou), Charles Henry 1851-1902.

American economist and publisher who with Edward D. Jones (1856-1920) established Dow Jones & Company, Inc. (1882), a publisher of financial bulletins. In 1889 he founded the Wall Street Journal.

, Herbert Henry 1866-1930.

American chemist and manufacturer who developed and patented more than 100 chemical processes and founded the Dow Chemical Company (1897).

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