The Dow Jones Industrial Average was created in 1896. A century later, the Dow Jones Indexes was formed as an entity within Dow Jones & Co, and the company expanded to have employees in 14 cities around the world.
On this day, August 23rd, in 1993, the Dow Jones Index experienced an all-time high of 3,638.96.
The Dow Jones Indexes are made up of over 130,000 indexes in total, but many of these indexes are not used by the general public. While most of them cover equity stock, other indexes also pertain to fixed-income, futures, options, private equity, commodity, currency, and alternative assets.