The Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index is down 2.62% for the first half of the year, said John Prestbo, editor and executive director of the Dow Jones Indexes.
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That tidbit was one of the anecdotes offered during a luncheon hosted by Dow Jones indexes in early May to celebrate the 115th anniversary of the Dow.
The Dow is intended as a gauge of U.S. stocks, not the economy, said one of the men responsible for its composition, Dow Jones indexes editor and executive director John Prestbo.
In 2008 they added public metrics, including the two Dow Jones Sustainability indexes.
Equities were hit particularly hard since stock market indexes like the Dow Jones Industrial Average are just off record highs set last week.
It also varies from newer indexes like the FTSE Curex dollar index or the Dow Jones FXCM Dollar Index, which weigh the currencies in their respective indexes equally.
Private investors and mutual funds who wish to invest in only Shariah-compliant companies can select the DJII or any of the other Islamic indexes established by Dow Jones for U.S., non-U.S., and specialty markets.
Dow Jones actually is publishing them and calculating them, the indexes.
Despite an apparent lack of news, Wall Street's major stock indexes glided downward throughout the afternoon, with the Dow Jones industrial average falling 3.3%, or 348.54 points, to 10, 482.53.
The US Dow Jones index closed down 2.1%, and German and French indexes fell more than 3%.
From 1896 the study used the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) as the market proxy, and other available indexes prior to 1896.
Following a buoyant start to the year, many stock indexes around the world are near multi-year highs and the Dow Jones index is not far off its all-time record.
The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 104 points to 15, 283, while the Nasdaq, which reversed before its fellow indexes, slid 48 points to 3, 454.
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