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Market Average

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Market "average." You hear it in the press all the time: The Dow Jones Industrial Average. In this case, the Dow comprises 30 large industrial stocks. Their stock prices are tracked to produce an index number. And there's an average that comes from it.

Check out the history of the Dow. Nice money if you stayed invested.

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