On July 17, 2007, The Wall Street Journal, a unit of Dow Jones, reported that the company and News Corporation had agreed in principle on a US $ 5 billion takeover, that the offer would be put to the full Dow Jones board on the same evening in New York, and that the offer valued the company at 70 % more than the company's market value.

* In the early 2000s, residents of the city of New Plymouth, New Zealand, reported many illnesses of people living around and working at the Dow Chemical plant.

MIU president Morris, later reported that research data indicated the conference had reduced violence in war torn areas and inspired an increase in the Dow Jones stock index via the Maharishi Effect.

In February 2012, it was widely reported in the 2012 Stratfor email leak that Dow Chemical Company hired private intelligence firm Stratfor to monitor the Yes Men.

Since the December 15 report, the Dow Jones has reported through the Wall Street Journal, that Regions Financial was never in talks to be acquired by PNC.

As mayor, Dow had authorized a shipment of $ 1, 600 worth of " medicinal and mechanical alcohol " that was being stored in the city vaults for distribution to pharmacists and doctors ( as was authorized under the Maine law ) but this detail was not widely reported.

Las Vegas Sands is now allegedly in talks with InterContinental Hotels Group PLC to manage the two hotel towers at its USD 4. 1 billion expansion project, the Dow Jones Newswires reported quoting a person familiar with the matter.

For example, for the 20 years from 1992 to 2011, the Dogs of the Dow matched the average annual total return of the Dow ( 10. 8 %) and outperformed the S & P 500 ( 9. 6 %) as reported by the Dogs of the Dow website located at dogsofthedow. com.

Therefore there are now a huge variety of different styles and types of map-for example, one area which has evolved a specific and recognisable variation are those used by public transport organisations to guide passengers, namely urban rail and metro maps, many of which are loosely based on 45 degree angles as originally perfected by Harry Beck and George Dow.

Edinburgh is also home to a flourishing group of contemporary composers such as Nigel Osborne, Peter Nelson, Lyell Cresswell, Hafliði Hallgrímsson, Edward Harper, Robert Crawford, Robert Dow and John McLeod whose music is heard regularly on BBC Radio 3 and throughout the UK.

* 2008 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 733. 08 points, or 7. 87 %, the second worst day in the Dow's history based on a percentage drop.

An investment book titled The Tao Jones Averages ( a pun on the Dow Jones Indexes ) illustrates this pronunciation's widespread familiarity.

** Vietnam War: Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison protest over recruitment by Dow Chemical on the University campus.

In broadcasting, Dow Jones provides news content to CNBC in the U. S. It produces two shows for commercial radio, The Wall Street Journal Report on the Wall Street Journal Radio Network and The Dow Jones Report.

On June 6, 2007, CEO Brian Tierney of Philadelphia Media Holdings L. L. C., owning company of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly. com, went public in an article on Philly. com expressing interest in " joining with outside partners to buy Dow Jones.

* Dow Jones Indexes video on indexing using Latin America as an example

It was founded on May 26, 1896, and is now owned by Dow Jones Indexes, which is majority owned by the CME Group.

Components of the Dow trade on both the NASDAQ OMX and the NYSE Euronext, two of the largest stock market companies.

Derivatives of the Dow trade on the Chicago Board Options Exchange and through the CME Group, the world's largest futures exchange company, which owns 90 % of the indexing business founded by Dow Jones, including the Industrial Average.

* On June 8, 2009, General Motors and Citigroup were replaced by The Travelers Companies and Cisco Systems, which became the third company traded on the NASDAQ to be part of the Dow.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was founded by Charles Dow on May 26, 1896, and represented the dollar average of 12 stocks from leading American industries.

International disturbances such as the Russo-Japanese War were few and far between and seemed to have little if any influence on the Dow.

The Dow fell 22. 61 % on Black Monday ( 1987 ) from about the 2, 500 level to around 1, 750.

Even the occurrences of the Rwandan Genocide and the Second Congo War, termed as " Africa's World War " that involved 8 separate African nations which together between the two killed over 5 million people ; didn't seem to have any noticeable negative financial impact on the Dow either.

Although internationally there was negativity surrounding the 1998 Russian financial crisis, the Dow would go on to surpass the 9, 000 level during the month of April in 1998, making its sentimental push towards the symbolic 10, 000 level.

The third largest one-day point drop in DJIA history, and largest at the time, occurred on September 17, 2001, the first day of trading after the September 11, 2001 attacks, when the Dow fell 684. 81 points, or 7. 1 %.

In 2002, The Yes Men issued a fake press release explaining why Dow refused to take responsibility for the disaster and started up a website, at " DowEthics. com ", designed to look like the real Dow website, but with what they felt was a more accurate cast on the events.

Tao Jones Index was a pun based on Bowie's real name, David Jones, and the 1997 Bowie Bond issue ( Tao is pronounced " Dow ", as in Dow Jones Index from the US stock market ).

Despite the poor over-the-air reception of KTVW in Seattle, the program had a following in the business community, if only for the 15-minute delayed stock ticker and the real time display of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Under Dow Jones ' ownership, Ottaway sold several newspapers in recent years, however, most recently in December 2006, when the company dealt nearly half its daily newspapers to Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. ( CNHI ) for $ 287. 9 million ( including real estate ).

The real company received considerable backlash, and both the real Dow and the phony Dow denied the statements, but Dow took no real action.

In November 2006, survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster were outraged by Ratan Tata ’ s offer to bail out Union Carbide and facilitate investments by Carbide ’ s new owner Dow Chemical.

100 crores from the American MNC, survivor ’ s groups felt that Tata ’ s offer was aimed at frustrating legal efforts to hold the company liable, and motivated by a desire to facilitate Dow ’ s investments in India.

Only for " Rapper's Delight " was the film's rendition ( by Ellen Dow ), used, in combination with the original recording.

Dow learned a great deal about the world of money on that journey as the men smoked cigars, played cards, and swapped stories.

Dow adds, " The ladies of Topsfield worked heartily in the cause of the soldiers during the war, and forwarded to the army, money, clothing and hospital stores ".

Although he was the chief financier of the fledgling company, Bergstresser chose to be a silent partner of Dow and Jones, using money he had saved while in college to fund their company.

It should be noted that the Dow had been in a downward trend for virtually all of 2001 prior to September 11, losing well over 1000 points between January 2 and September 10, and had lost 187. 51 points on September 6, followed by losing 235. 4 points on September 7.

However, the Dow began an upward trend shortly after the attacks and quickly regained all lost ground to close above the 10, 000 level for the year.

After nearly six months of extreme volatility during which the Dow experienced its largest one day point loss, largest daily point gain, and largest intra-day range ( more than 1, 000 points ), the index closed at a new twelve-year low of 6, 547. 05 on March 9, 2009 ( after an intra-day low of 6, 469. 95 during the March 6 session ), its lowest close since April 1997, and had lost 20 % of its value in only six weeks.

As of September 24, 2002, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had lost 27 % of the value it held on January 1, 2001: a total loss of 5 trillion dollars.

The Dow Jones had already lost 9 % of its peak value at the start of 2001, while the Nasdaq had lost 44 %.

** In 2000, the Dow lost 6. 17 % of its value ( 11, 497. 10 to 10, 788. 00 )

** In 2001, the Dow lost 5. 35 % of its value ( 10, 788. 00 to 10, 021. 60 )

** In 2002, the Dow lost 16. 76 % of its value ( 10, 021. 60 to 8, 341. 63 )

The next day, " Black Tuesday ", October 29, 1929, about 16 million shares were traded, and the Dow lost an additional 30 points, or 12 %, amid rumors that U. S. President Herbert Hoover would not veto the pending Smoot – Hawley Tariff Act.

For most of the 1930s, the Dow began slowly to regain the ground it lost during the 1929 crash and the three years following it, but it would not return to the peak closing of September 3, 1929 until November 23, 1954.

Although Dow was acquitted, his image had suffered badly ; he lost his subsequent bid to become Maine Governor.

The Dow Jones lost 300 points the same day on investors ' concerns about the security of the bank.

Year of the Rabbit ( 2002 – 2004 ) saw Andrews ' return to the four-piece rock band format, alongside ON's touring drummer, Tim Dow, and former members of National Skyline and Cupcakes ; the harder-rocking sound of YotR is much closer to that of Failure, but the band lost momentum and eventually went on indefinite hiatus after their label, Elektra Records, was ostensibly shut down by its parent company.

The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that corn rootworms cause $ 1 billion in lost revenue each year, which includes $ 800 million in yield loss and $ 200 million in cost of treatment for corn growers ( The Dow Chemical Company ).

Dow ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1958 provincial election, but lost to Progressive Conservative incumbent Errick French Willis by over 1, 000 votes in the southern riding of Turtle Mountain.

The Progressive Conservative Party won a second consecutive majority government in the 1962 provincial election, and Dow lost to PC candidate Peter I. McDonald by over 800 votes.

The Liberals lost much of their rural support base in the 1969 provincial election, and Dow lost his seat to PC candidate Earl McKellar by over 1, 000 votes in the redistributed riding of Souris — Killarney.

In the 1966 election, he lost to Dow by only five votes.

In some jurisdictions, the name Saran is a registered trademark of the Dow Chemical Company, while in others, it has lost trademark status and become a generic term for these polymers.

* The May 6, 2010 Flash Crash, when the Dow Jones briefly lost more than 900 points in response to the 2010 European sovereign debt crisis and algorithmic trading

The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that corn rootworms cause $ 1 billion in lost revenue each year, which includes $ 800 million in yield loss and $ 200 million in cost of treatment for corn growers ( The Dow Chemical Company ).