Dow Jones Industrial Stocks (DJIA) » Before 1900 http://www.dow-jones-djia.com Dow Stock List, Index Changes & History, Earnings, Stock Chart and Quote Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:48:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 April 21, 1899 Changes to DJIA http://www.dow-jones-djia.com/2007/03/04/april-21-1899-changes-to-dow-jones-inustrial-average/ http://www.dow-jones-djia.com/2007/03/04/april-21-1899-changes-to-dow-jones-inustrial-average/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:52:17 +0000 admin http://www.dow-jones-djia.com/2007/03/04/april-21-1899-changes-to-dow-jones-inustrial-average/ Continental Tobacco, Federal Steel, General Electric, American Steel & Wire replaced American Spirits Manufacturing, American Tobacco, Laclede Gas and Standard Rope & Twine

American Cotton Oil
American Steel & Wire
American Sugar
Continental Tobacco
Federal Steel
General Electric Company
National Lead
Pacific Mail Steamship
Peoples Gas
Tennessee Coal & Iron
U.S. Leather pfd.
U.S. Rubber

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American Cotton Oil
American Spirits Manufacturing
American Sugar
American Tobacco
Laclede Gas
National Lead
Pacific Mail Steamship
Peoples Gas
Standard Rope & Twine
Tennessee Coal & Iron
U.S. Leather pfd.
U.S. Rubber

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American Cotton Oil
American Spirits Manufacturing
American Sugar
American Tobacco
General Electric
Laclede Gas
National Lead
Pacific Mail Steamship
Peoples Gas
Standard Rope & Twine
Tennessee Coal & Iron
U.S. Leather pfd.

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American Cotton Oil
American Spirits Manufacturing
American Sugar
American Tobacco
Chicago Gas
General Electric
Laclede Gas
National Lead
Pacific Mail Steamship
Standard Rope & Twine
Tennessee Coal & Iron
U.S. Leather pfd.

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American Cotton Oil
American Spirits Manufacturing
American Sugar
American Tobacco
Chicago Gas
General Electric
Laclede Gas
National Lead
Pacific Mail Steamship
Tennessee Coal & Iron
U.S. Cordage pfd.
U.S. Leather pfd.

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American Cotton Oil
American Spirits Manufacturing
American Sugar
American Tobacco
Chicago Gas
General Electric
Laclede Gas
National Lead
Tennessee Coal & Iron
U.S. Cordage pfd.
U.S. Leather pfd.
U.S. Rubber

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American Cotton Oil
American Sugar
American Tobacco
Chicago Gas
Distilling & Cattle Feeding
General Electric
Laclede Gas
National Lead
North American
Tennessee Coal &
U.S. Leather pfd.
U.S. Rubber

The first Dow Jones Industrial Average computed from this list of twelve (12) stocks was 40.94. The DJIA declined gradually during June and July and on August 8, 1896 closed at 28.48 setting the lowest point on record for the industrial average.

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Deleted from average:
Lake Shore Railroad
New York Central
Pacific Mail Steamship
Added to average:
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
American Sugar

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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Chicago & North Western
Delaware & Hudson Canal
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Lake Shore Railroad
Louisville & Nashville
Missouri Pacific
New York Central
Northern Pacific pfd.
Pacific Mail Steamship
Union Pacific
Western Union

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Central Pacific
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul
Chicago & North Western
Delaware & Hudson Canal
Delaware, Lackawanna
& Western
Lake Shore Railroad
Louisville & Nashville
Missouri Pacific
New York Central
Northern Pacific preferred
Pacific Mail Steamship
Union Pacific
Western Union

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