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Dow Jones & Company

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Dow Jones & Company is an American financial news service founded in 1882 by Charles Henry Dow and Edward D. Jones. It is best known for creating the Dow Jones averages, which are stock market indexes that track general trends in U.S. stock prices. The most famous of these is the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which currently includes 30 large U.S. companies. The company also publishes The Wall Street Journal. The Dow Jones averages are price-weighted indexes, meaning stocks with higher prices have a greater influence on the index's movement.12

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