Traders and fund managers use major stock indices to get an overview of how markets are performing. A stock index allows investors to gauge the movement in the value of the market, while also providing an average measure of the individual company stock prices that make up the index. Globally, investors track a number of major indices but the ones most followed across the world include the US-based Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Standard & Poor's 500 and the Nasdaq Composite index. Let's take a closer look at the Dow Jones.

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