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Charles Dow

American journalist

Died when: 51 years 28 days (612 months)
Star Sign: Scorpio

 

Charles Dow

Charles Henry Dow (/da?/;November 6, 1851 – December 4, 1902) was an American journalist who co-founded Dow Jones & Company with Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser.

Dow also co-founded The Wall Street Journal, which has become one of the most respected financial publications in the world.

He also invented the Dow Jones Industrial Average as part of his research into market movements.He developed a series of principles for understanding and analyzing market behavior which later became known as Dow theory, the groundwork for technical analysis.


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