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Dow Hits Highest Close Ever. Updated March 5, 2013 7:33 p.m. The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged to its highest closing level ever, finally overcoming the losses tied to the financial crisis on the back of a tenacious stock rally that began in March 2009. And the blue chips did it with an exclamation pointâa 125.95-point blast that left the old record in the dust.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), often referred to as the Dow Jones or simply as the Dow, is a price-weighted average of the stocks of 30 large American publicly traded companies. Created by Charles Dow in 1896, it is the most well-known U.S. stock index and is used to gauge the market's performance from day to day. What is a price-weighted index? In a nutshell, a price-weighted index means that higher-priced stocks have more influence over the index's performance than lower-priced ones.