Dow.

However, former Dow Jones executives say it was also motivated by a desire to get out of business with Mr Murdoch.

He said he was very fortunate yesterday because the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose and today it fell, so it had nothing to do with him.

Armed with that information, regulators might be able to do a more thorough postmortem next time the Dow takes a plunge.

The company behind The Wall StreetJournal and Dow Jones Newswires made its name by publishing the kind of newsthat moves the stock market.

With the Dow down 10% over the last five sessions, some of you are probably wondering whether I'm still crazy enough to be buying stocks.

He said the stock market is enjoying a bear-market rally that could take the Dow to 9000, up nearly 38% from its March 9 low.

The commotion in Europe was one factor tugging down stocks in the U. S. , where the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1. 6%.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average's 46% surge was one of just six of that magnitude in the last 100 years.

Buffett's goal was to top the Dow Jones Industrial Average by an average of 10% a year.

Regarding Mr. Leung, he said, 'I know Michael, and he is a friend, but I certainly did not talk to him about Dow Jones.

The ribbon of Dow tickers crawls across the actors' faces as if Wall Street were the Matrix.

A Standard and Poor's analyst trotted it out on a day that the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by 0. 4 per cent.

Dow Jones has stripped off the gloss he enjoyed from MySpace and made him look like an old guy with print in his veins.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI), commonly just referred to as "The Dow" , is an average of the price of 30 stocks.

"The reconfirmation came quicker than I thought it would, " Russell said. "As far as the Dow Theory goes, the relationship still holds. "

And yet, as the slide in the Dow Jones and the rise in US Treasury bond prices implied, there could be real-world consequences.

Dow Chemical Co. also confirmed it had a two-week phenol shutdown at its plant in Oyster Creek, Texas, earlier this year.

The memo, sent by Dow Jones Chief Executive Les Hinton and obtained by Reuters, said the one-year freeze is part of efforts to save money.

Han Yu's life is the best admonish pagoda, Su said he was writing after generations of decline, the Dow economic world of the drowning.

"The negative correlation between the Dow and the USD remains in place with commodity and equity prices buoyant, " he said.

IBM has been a strong market leader this year, rising more than 25% versus a 2% rise for the Dow Jones Industrials.

"Dow futures at the moment are down 115 because of the swine flu fear, so I'm expecting the (local) market to come off, " he said.

These setbacks have been deeply painful for a 130-year-old company that has been a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since 1896.

Stock investors are more easily rattled than Treasury holders, so the downgrade might be a bigger deal for the Dow.

Stock markets remained in upheaval, with the general downward trend punctuated by events like an 11-percent gain in the Dow on Oct.

Yet investors, spoiled by the strong growth of the 1950s, had driven stock prices up to 18 times earnings at the beginning of Dow 1000.

Two years after the 1987 market crash , the Dow was 400 points higher than it had been on the Friday before Black Monday, a gain of 20% .

This year, in late August, bearishness jumped to its highest point of the past five months, just as the Dow began a 14% rally.

Even Goldessential told Dow Jones Newswires: 'We don't attach much importance to it, ' adding that it was discounting the news as a rumor.

When the Dow industrial average fell by half in a few days in October 1929, it was not just rich financiers who lost their shirts.

The Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index has seesawed since it plunged from its June 2008 peak, and is trending downward at the moment.

It was an up-and-down day on Wall Street with the Dow falling below 12, 000 points before an eventual rebound and gain.

At least 10 of the 30 companies listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average have had units with addresses in the Caymans .

Stocks have been volatile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down about 1% this week and is at its lowest level in a month.

The Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index last week dropped to its lowest level since July, before recouping some of its losses.

Tong Chun is only one, but the spirit of Tong Chun is like a sky full of the stars, the Dow could not finish, countless.

One of the tycoon's most senior deputies Les Hinton has already quit as CEO of Dow Jones, which published the Wall Street Journal.

References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless otherwise expressly noted.

Eventually yes, say experts, some of whom expect to see Dow 10, 000 as early as the end of this year.

Dow Chemical was not immediately available for comment on whether this deal would be affected by the scrapping of the Kuwait joint venture.

The median forecast in a Dow Jones Newswires poll of economists was for industrial production to rise 18. 6% from a year earlier in April.

But that was an illusion created by the addition of Dow Jones, which the News Corporation owned for only 18 days of the year-ago period.

A poor profit report from Kraft Foods Inc. made the company the worst-performing member of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow average.

Dow Jones: What's the general outlook for the telecom equipment market for the remainder of this year?

Liveris declined to comment on whether he has been approached, and said he remains firmly entrenched in Dow.

To be fair, the Nikkei almost got there at twice the clip as the Dow before bouncing like a samurai's severed head.

In March, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell to its lowest levels in 12 years, there was just one IPO filing, according to Dealogic.

Raymond James' Jeffrey Saut, another Dow Theory watcher, maintains that the key level for the Dow Jones Transports is not the June high.

We have to distinguish whether some of Jade manual dyeing processing, often by means of Dow filters.

Some of the more notable market bottoms, in terms of the closing values of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) include.

Dow filters to deal with the green of the emerald into a positive identification can be carried out.

And back in 1982, just as the index lifted its head above 1000, the Dow had plenty of doubters.

The only problem: Dow's CEO had no idea that the meeting was taking place.

Cox , a former Dow Jones executive , opposed the offer for months but recently began to waver, other family members said .

Chinese exports fell 2. 8 per cent in December, at least one percentage point less than expected, Dow Jones reported on Saturday.

Though it's still in the developmental stage, "this technology could be a real game changer, " says Fred Moore of Dow Chemical.

Then, just to see what would happen, Mao compared the national mood to the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

But Dow Jones also said it has licensed the index to at least one investment firm.

For the reasons outlined in my method of operation, our best years relative to the Dow are likely to be in declining or static markets.

When banking gurus like Mike Mayo and Meredith Whitney screamed 'sell the banks, ' the Dow reflexively fell into a death spiral.

This week Dow Jones announced that this, too, will be shut: the Far Eastern Economic Review will be no more.

The Dow lost 127 points at today's close. But it was an up week for the markets after last week's carnage.

The accident would cause the Dow-Ming-Sez he plays in Part II of "Meteor Garden" to lose consciousness for a while.

Mr Murdoch, 76, said he expected savings could be made from integrating News Corp and Dow Jones operations "well in excess of $50m" .

Dow tried to pull out of the acquisition when its financing for the transaction fell apart.

Copyright (c) 2010 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. The conference averted a collapse of the diplomatic groundwork laid out in the Kyoto agreement.

Caterpillar is a DOW 30 company with a strong balance sheet and substantial financial resources.

Yesterday, the Dow held steady. But oil continued to sink. The price per barrel fell below $35.

As recently as Monday, investors were plowing cash into stocks, and averages like the Dow industrials are off their lows.

What if, like Japan, this is only the beginning and the Dow has another quarter-odd century left to fall, or just flatlines?

The markets went into a spin and the Dow Jones index dropped 70 points within several minutes.

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Banks that need to boost a form of regulatory capital are getting some help from a recent change in accounting rules.

It is one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones industrial Average and is also a component of the Standard & Poor "s 500 Index. "

Prospects for a 'lower' near-term high are ripe, given how the market away from the Dow is performing.

The Dow plummeted nearly 800 points a few weeks ago -- and then just as dramatically rocketed back up again.

It has taken more than six years for the Dow Industrial index to make it back into record territory.

Even with all its recent volatility, the Dow is still up 7% since the year began.

'Nobody quite knows what asset values should be until the economy re-sets, ' Ballmer is quoted as saying in a Dow Jones Newswires article.

The Dow-Ming-Sez he portrayed in "Meteor Garden" was wealthy, and yet chaste.

But Dow today has clawed back more than half of that decline and was recently up 78 points.

from the two sixty level to now the four seventy level on the DOW-Jones Industrial Average in a matter, and literally, in a split second.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average also put in a strong gain, although it still is down almost 4% on the year.

the Dow continued what amounts to a stealth rally in a market characterized by below-average trading volume and small daily moves.

Most people want to be the sun dat brightens up ur life , but i'd rather be the moon the shines dow .

After zigzagging all day, the Dow suddenly slid in the final hour of trading, finishing down over 200 points.

In inflation-adjusted terms, however, the Dow today is only a little over twice its 1929 peak, according to Ned Davis Research.

The only Dow stock to post gains was Cisco Systems, up 0. 4% as investors responded to a better-than-expected profit report.

It was the Dow's biggest percentage drop since December 2008 and its sixth-largest point decline ever.

But now, though buying Dow would set a new record for private equity, it would not be by much.

The muted light-blue price series of daily closes illustrates the point at which the 1930 Dow reached its ultimate momentum failure.

Now, however, he is wondering who will replace GM in the top 30 countdown of famous companies known as the Dow Jones Industrial Average?

During the session, the Dow had fallen to the lowest point since Nov. 21, considered by some to be the low of the bear market.

Drink at the river Wei, Wei River shortage, the North drink Daze, do not suggest, Dow thirst to death.

The closure comes as Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which bought Dow Jones in 2007, steps up the restructuring of its businesses in the region.

When the curtain rises, Juliet is writing at her desk. Suddenly, the win- dow opens and a masked man enters.

Mr. Zannino, through an intermediary, encouraged Mr. Murdoch to put his offer in writing and present it to the Dow Jones board.

Managers in cash Monday missed out on the Dow's biggest one-day point gain ever.

Wednesday was like Groundhog Day, with the Dow falling more than 3 percent before closing with a gain.

Mr. Hinton is chief executive of Dow Jones & Co. , the News Corp. unit that publishes The Wall Street Journal.

Investors remained skittish in the United States, although the Dow Jones managed to finish the day up slightly.

In accordance to the Dow Theory, this divergence means the Transport have failed to confirm the Industrials ' bearish trend.

Dow Jones Newswires said the Chinese government gave its blessings for the deal.

It was the Dow's fourth triple-digit move in five days and brings its declines since its April peak to more than 16%.

The Dow Jones Utility Average has gyrated, along with the rest of the market, but its moves have been smaller.

"The Simpsons" is broadcast by News Corp. 's Fox television network. News Corp. owns The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires.

The original Dow Jones Industrial Average had just 12 stocks and was weighted by the share prices of the component companies.

Both contributed to the volatility of a session in which the Dow suffered its biggest loss in almost four years.

Dow recently announced a joint venture with a Turkish company to make carbon fiber and derivatives for use in wind turbines and the like.

But Microsoft was a rare bright spot among Dow components, up 1% after announcing a stock buyback program and an increased dividend.

GE would then have combined Dow Jones with its NBC Universal unit, in part to stave off competition from News Corp.

The only part he was likely to sell was its US regional newspapers, which Dow Jones acquired from the Ottaway family.

Then it took Mr Bernanke two attempts and a collapse in the Dow to persuade Congress to approve emergency bailout funds.

This process, says Chris Dow, Closed Loop's managing director, was "a lab trial" two years ago.

American Express Co. , Caterpillar Inc. and Walt Disney Co. lost at least 0. 7 percent to lead declines in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

The Dow Chemical Company has recently announced plans to put all product prices 20%, to offset the growth in production costs.

Wall Street veterans even coined a term for the market's behavior: 'quadraphobia, ' or the fear of a four-digit closing value for the Dow.

"We could have kind of a Dow Jones index of the environment, " Fisher said.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average last week ended, at least temporarily, a seven-day, 14% rebound from a 12-year low.

The Nikkei 225 index is the benchmark index for equity prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Like the Dow Jones . . .

In addition to this and other newswires, Dow Jones publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions.

In another example, Dow AgroSciences threatened a researcher with legal action if he published information he had received from US EPA.

But hardly something one wants to hear when the Dow Jones Industrial Average is already north of 10000.

For the statistical minded, Appendix A gives the results of the Dow by years since information of the predecessor partnerships.

A mixed alcohol catalyst from Dow is seen as the key to unlocking the potential for this promising renewable energy resource.

'The idea that napalm was made by Dow Chemical, you started to think, 'These guys are really evil', ' Mr. Argenti says.

Up to now, dow Jones index has risen continuously 5 weeks, this can say is the setting that will 10 years see inaccessibly .

Murdoch fulfilled a long-held ambition to own The Wall Street Journal after making a stunning, cunning, $5 billion offer for Dow Jones &Co.

This week, Sprint Nextel appointed Dan Hesse, a "54-year-old telecom veteran" , as Dow Jones put it, to be its new chief executive.

And, US news agency Dow Jones last week ran a story considering the practicality of calls for a ban on Chinese food imports.

say a lot of their customers are freaked out, waiting to see how low the Dow will go.

Headed into the month, the Dow industrials had already experienced a terrible September.

A transcript of the documents, assembled by congressional investigators and reviewed by Dow Jones Newswires, indicates Mr.

In August, the Dow fell a stomach-churning 513 points in a single day, only to gain much of it back soon after.

But the Dow Jones Industrial Average eked out a mere 22-point gain on the day of the announcement.

Unless stocks recover Friday, the Dow will turn in its biggest weekly decline since 2008 as well.

He is also a former director of Dow Jones & Co. , the publisher of this newswire and The Wall Street Journal, now owned by News Corp.

The Dow Jones industrial average finished up 196 points from its opening, although it was down from higher gains earlier in the day.

The Dow Jones is down by almost 40 per cent so far this year but this makes it pretty much the best performing stock market in the world.

Bombardier is listed as an index component to the Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America indexes.

It's taken more than six years for the Dow Industrial Index to make it back into record territory.

Already, Dow has a highly innovative R&D centre near Shanghai, churning out products such as paint that takes formaldehyde out of the air.

In the U. S. , the trade tensions initially sent stocks lower, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 70 points at the open.

Shortly after the opening bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was trading in a tight range, moving between single-digit gains and losses.

From February through May, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained more than 1000 points in an almost uninterrupted daily march upward.

The NASDAQ developed the new uptrend many weeks before the DOW began to move.

The Dow recovered more than half of that lost value on Tuesday.

If it can close above that level, it would be the Dow's best finish since September 2008, just before the financial crisis peaked.

Historically, the Dow often has rebounded sharply after being down around 50%, as it was this time.

One point on which most observers agree is that the issue is no esoteric nicety but is instead core to the future value of Dow Jones .

As for selling Dow to private equity, Mr Liveris says that he and the board would properly consider any offer, as they are bound to.

A few seconds later, I turned to her and asked if she knew what the Dow was.

Dow Theory attempts to describe the character of these market movements.

The Dow is a relic of a market indicator; an average, not an index, weighted by price, not by market value.

Survivors of the 1984 Bhopal tragedy gather to urge Obama to hold U. S. corporation Dow Chemical accountable for the disaster.

Peter Kann, who founded the Asian Wall Street Journal before becoming chief executive of Dow Jones, has lobbied against the Murdoch bid.

Which isn't to say the Dow Jones Industrial Average is, or should be, the most important economic indicator for the Obama team.

Murdoch said that News Corp also plans to keep control of Dow Jones Indexes, after reports that it was considering selling it.

Thus, the Dow color filter to be careful when you go to see Jade careful analysis, to aid the internal color of jade texture resolution.

To protect his clients' confidentiality, Mr Dow not only altered names but mixed up the circumstances of many cases that he has worked on.

Which one of the following statements is NOT true of Mr Murdoch's offer for Dow Jones?

Dow Jones : Any update on your plans to expand in the U. S. and Japan?

NYSE shares closed at $26. 38 on Friday and are down 12% in a year when the Dow Jones Industrial Average has risen about 6%.

The details of the plan were slightly more than many were expecting, and helped lead the Dow to a 220-point charge on Thursday.

Fukushima Prefecture (Dow Jones)--Friday's giant earthquake and tsunami have caused hardship for many Japanese in the past few days.

Dow Chemical said recently that it expected the fall in plastics demand to result in lower margins for its plastics units in the near term.

Incidentally, GM will now be the first Dow component to lose its place in the "Hot 30" because of bankruptcy in more than three decades.

People close to the family and the Dow Jones board gave differing accounts Friday of the stance of the Denver trusts.

But going private would be a bad idea for Dow, he believes.

Like the Dow, broader stock indicators also advanced for the third straight session.

Some investors worry that the Dow, with its rapid climb following a precipitous fall, is following patterns seen in the 1930s and 1970s.

Initially, the Bancroft family, which held controlling interest in Dow Jones, declined, saying it opposed Murdoch's management methods.

The indicator failed in 2003 and 2005 as well, when the Dow fell in January and rose in the rest of the year.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than five percent because of renewed concerns over a deep recession in the United States.

The site is owned by Dow Jones, a News Corp. unit that publishes the Wall Street Journal and this newswire.

Mr. Ho Koon-dow (right) presents a cheque, symbolizing the establishment of the joint scholarship programme, to Mr. Andy Lee.

Even though the Dow Jones Industrial Average was flat for the month of October, it's still up 48% from its March low and 11% for the year.

News Corp is cutting jobs at the Wall Street Journal, but adding them at Dow Jones news wires.

GM's bankruptcy caused it to be removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a weighted average of 30 stocks.

Yet, the Dow Jones U. S. Integrated Oil and Gas Total Stock Market index is up less than 21% for the same period.

For all its vigor, the Dow is still down 9% for the year and 43% from its record high.

The SEC said in its complaint against the Wongs that $3. 1m used to purchase the Dow Jones shares was wired from Mr Leung's bank account.

'We put a man on the moon. We should be able to do this better, ' said Roger Dow, the association's president.

Thursday's decline -- the 11th largest in percentage terms in the Dow's history -- put the stock market either in, or nearly in, a crash.

The Dow-Ming-Sez he portrays in Part II of "Meteor Garden" is in a coma after an accident.

Thanks to such advances, says Mr Dow, the number of things that can be profitably recycled will keep expanding.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose almost 120 points in early morning trading. Broader indexes were up more than 1 percent as well.

The Dow's decline was its biggest point drop since the market was plunging amid a crisis of confidence in banks in late 2008.

The Dow has had a mixed week so far, falling Monday and Tuesday before rising 1. 4% on Wednesday.

Citi fell $1. 83, or 4. 9 percent, to $35. 90 and was the steepest decliner among the 30 stocks that make up the Dow industrials.

Cisco Systems Inc. rose 2. 3 percent to post the largest gain among the 30 companies that make up the Dow Jones industrial average.

In the U. S. , the Dow's gain enabled the index to close in positive territory for November.

Dow compiled the index as a way to gauge the performance of the industrial component of America's stock markets.

Showing a 5% profit gain, Wal-Mart attracted investors who bid up shares 20% - making it one of only two Dow stocks in positive territory.

'We will work with Qantas to identify what the problem is, ' a spokesman for the U. K. -based engine maker told Dow Jones Newswires.

The U. S. stock market rallied, with the Dow Jones U. S. home construction index, jumping nearly 9 percent.

The Dow has risen 59% since March 9, one of the strongest short-term performances in its history.

Yet the Nikkei 225, the Japanese equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, has sat out the ETF boom, thanks to licensing disputes.

The market's latest slump took the Dow Jones Industrial Average this week to its lowest level since 1997.

oriental art form has remained relatively stable, although "the same day, the Dow has not changed. "

The Dow Jones industrial average rose for a fifth day, adding 108 points in morning trading. Broader indexes also climbed.

U. S. shares shot higher on the news, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average gaining more than 200 points to cross back over the 10000 level.

But oil prices dipped into negative territory in the afternoon, sending the Dow and S& P 500 into a late-session rally.

This ideology has collapsed; the Dow stands at barely 20 per cent of that level.

Rupert Murdoch is expected to invest heavily in Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal.

The Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 170 points on Friday, reminding investors of the big turmoil in the market last week.

Mergers and private equity are booming, as are stockmarkets (the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit another record high on Tuesday).

They always had him wear clinging garments when he played Dow-Ming-Sez in "Meteor Garden" .

Although the Dow has been flat, Bernhardt said, "a globally diversified portfolio would have doubled its value over the past decade. "

This was demonstrated in some detail by the late Christopher Dow in his study, "Major Recessions" , published in 1998.

In this case, the Dow dropped to its lowest point in almost 2 years, and experts say the reason why is gas prices.

Dow Jones trades blue chip indexes, while NASDAQ concerns itself with technology development potentials.

The boss is insisting. Verizon Wireless, Microsoft and Dow Chemical dangle cash bonuses for workers who lose weight or stop smoking.

The next day the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed below 10, 000 for the first time since February.

The Dow Jones Global Exchange index has gained 600 per cent since its inception at the beginning of 2000.

Performance Solvents is one strategic business among Oxygenated Solvents in Dow.

Pfizer was the weakest Dow component Wednesday, off 2. 3% after announcing a lower-than-expected fourth-quarter profit.

The project was backed by the Dutch government, American chemicals company Dow and the Saudi conglomerate Sabic.

The parent company of the Indian subsidiary was bought by Dow Chemical of the United States in 1999.

And any prospective new owner knows that there are now two experienced former Dow executives available for hire, should they be needed.

Mr. Roth says indexes still might gain some ground before topping out, and he wouldn't be surprised to see the Dow hit 9000.

The week after Japan dropped the bombs, the Dow fell four and a half percent.

Should Dow Jones's journalism fall below the standards readers expect , he added, " they would make their own judgment" .

On Friday, crude-oil futures steadied and stocks staged a modest rebound, but still the Dow suffered its worst week since early August.

Who do you think would make a good Dow replacement for GM?

But it was the first time the Dow had fallen below 10, 000 since October 2004, with banks and struggling car companies leading the rout.

'I think the inverse relationship between [gold] and the Dow is still driving things, ' he says.

But the gains in the Dow have raised the bar for the next wave of reports.

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Some of May's losses were recouped in June, helping the Dow Jones-UBS index finish the quarter with a drop of 4. 9%.

Today, Dow Chemical Co. and others are building new world-scale facilities along the Gulf Coast because of the inexpensive energy available.

The announcement said family members with about thirty-seven percent of Dow Jones' voting stock have agreed to support the deal.

Stocks already have come far, with the Dow Jones industrials on Tuesday hitting fresh 2009 highs.

As a professional institute, DOW is dedicated to creating an artistic human environment which is ECOLOGICAL and HARMONIOUS!

Drama of love, life Wall Street Journal reports that are not, the Dow could not finish.

With the stock markets crashing early this week, President Barack Obama tried to reassure -- and the Dow sank another 200 points.

Lately, some investors have gotten interested in measuring the Dow in gold rather than dollars.

The foreign companies are Royal Dutch Shell, Kuwait Petroleum Corp and Dow Chemical, Chinese officials said.

So far, as a Henan meteorological official told Dow Jones Newswires Friday, the government hasn't unrolled the rocket launchers yet.

Still, a look back at Dow 1000 may still help us think a little more clearly about Dow 10000.

Theory of Charles Henry Dow uses the closing price the price to formulate a market price index.

Dow Jones: Huawei has been expanding overseas, looking at growth opportunities.

Google's IPO in 2004 makes it still a bit young in the tooth, by the Dow's standards.

U. S. stock futures were pointing to a retreat on Tuesday, with Dow Jones Industrial Average futures down 29 points.

Innovation: Adhere to standard Dow work process and procedure and use problem solving techniques to solve them.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500-stock index each rose more than 20%, the traditional definition of a bull market.

Their fear that Dow Jones' stock price will drop if they turn down his bid is exaggerated by their advisers to scare them into selling.

The Dow rose just under 40% in the six-month rally that sparked that bull market, so the rally wasn't quite on a par with the others.

The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 5. 8% last week, its worst weekly decline since the depths of the recession in March 2009.

Common stocks, like Dow Jones industrials, were unglamorous but usually dependable.

Early in October, the Dow industrials suffered their worst calendar-week percentage decline on record.