1. STOCK MARKETS AND THE DOW

3. STOCK MARKETS
Most people understand that a stock market / stock exchange is a place where shares are bought and sold
the stock market is the market in which shares of publicly held companies are issued and traded either through exchanges or over- the-counter markets.
Stock Markets are also known as the equity market

4. / Markets

6. World: Top 10 Stock Markets
NYSE New York Stock Exchange
NASDAQ National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
Tokyo Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange (oldest in world)
Shanghai Stock Exchange
Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Toronto Stock Exchange
BM&F Bovespa (Sao Paulo, Barzil)
Australian Securities Exchange
Deutsch Borse (Frankfurt, Germany)

7. DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE

8. Today, the DJIA is a benchmark that tracks American stocks that are considered to be the leaders of the economy and are on the Nasdaq and NYSE.
The DJIA covers 30 large-cap companies, which are subjectively picked by the editors of the Wall Street Journal.
Over the years, companies in the index have been changed to ensure the index stays current in its measure of the U.S. economy.
In fact, of the initial companies included in the average, only General Electric remains as part of the modern-day average.

12. How the Dow Jones Industrial Average is Calculated
Data taken from 2006