Winnsboro Facts Quick facts about the Winnsboro area Airport: Fairfield County Airport is located four miles south of Winnsboro on S.C. 269, offering one paved 5,000 foot runway and parallel taxiway, jet and 100 low-lead fuel, terminal building, t-hangars, rental cars, seven rental airplanes and flight instruction.
A stock market, equity market or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers (a loose network of economic transactions, not a physical facility or discrete entity) of stocks (also called shares), which represent ownership claims on businesses; these may include securities listed on a public stock exchange as well as those only traded privately.
The most widely used indicator of the overall condition of the stock market, a price-weighted average of 30 actively traded blue chip stocks, primarily industrials. The 30 stocks are chosen by the editors of the Wall Street Journal (which is published by Dow Jones & Company), a practice that dates back to the beginning of the century. The Dow was officially started by Charles Dow in 1896, at which time it consisted of only 11 stocks.