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Dow Jones Index

The Dow Jones Index, more correctly known as the Dow Jones Indexes, is also known as the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is defined as an index of how the stocks of 30 large publicly-owned companies have traded on one day in the stock market.

(noun)

An example of a Dow Jones Industrial Average stock (as published by Dow Jones Indexes) is AT&T as of 2011.

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