Dow-Jones Industrial Average

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Dow-Jones Industrial Average
    n 1: an indicator of stock market prices; based on the share
         values of 30 blue-chip stocks listed on the New York Stock
         Exchange; "the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the most
         widely cited indicator of how the stock market is doing"
         [syn: {Dow Jones}, {Dow-Jones Industrial Average}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Dow-Jones Industrial Average \Dow-Jones Industrial Average\, n.
   (Finance)
   an index of certain stock prices on the New York Stock
   Exchange, computed by the Dow Jones publishing company as a
   weighted average of the prices of the common stocks of 30
   specific companies classified as "industrial". The Dow Jones
   Industrial Average is often taken as an indicator of the
   movement of American stock prices generally, though other
   indices are maintained, averaging the prices of other stocks,
   and these often change in opposite directions from those of
   the DJIA.

   Syn: DJI, DJIA, Dow, Dow Jones, Dow-Jones Average. [PJC]