# Recent Stock Market history **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 31, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-stock-market-history/470503 "2008-10-31T22:29:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-stock-market-history/470503/1 "2008-10-31T22:29:31Z")
Could somebody please direct me to a website which details the _exact_ movements of the NYSE Dow Jones over the past month? My Google-Fu is failing me at the moment. (I’m specifically seeking the exact day when the Dow moved by +777 points…or maybe it was -777, I don’t recall.) ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-stock-market-history/470503/2 "2008-10-31T22:31:37Z")
> **[Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) Charts, Data & News - Yahoo Finance](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI?ltr=1)** > > Find the latest information on Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) including data, charts, related news and more from Yahoo Finance > **[^DJI Interactive Stock Chart | Dow Jones Industrial Average Stock - Yahoo...](https://finance.yahoo.com/chart/%5EDJI?ltr=1)** > > At Yahoo Finance, you get free stock quotes, up-to-date news, portfolio management resources, international market data, social interaction and mortgage rates that help you manage your financial life. > **[Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) Historical Data - Yahoo Finance](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI/history?ltr=1)** > > Get historical data for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) on Yahoo Finance. View and download daily, weekly or monthly data to help your investment decisions. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-stock-market-history/470503/3 "2008-10-31T22:53:03Z")
Check Google finance as well. If they and Yahoo! agree, there’s a good chance that they’re actually right. ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-stock-market-history/470503/4 "2008-10-31T23:30:08Z")
I think the specific day you want is September 29th. The Dow dropped 777.68. Yhaoo lets you download a spread sheet with the daily close going back to 1928. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-stock-market-history/470503/5 "2008-10-31T23:47:54Z")
> [@gazpacho](#): > > I think the specific day you want is September 29th. The Dow dropped 777.68. Yhaoo lets you download a spread sheet with the daily close going back to 1928. Ah, thank you. (I was only looking at the October charts.) BTW, I’m wondering how many people remember that day? Especially when you consider that 777 = Jesus Christ. (It’s the opposite of 666, basically.) I don’t believe in Christ or any type of Messiah, but I know lots of people do, and when I saw CNN focus on that -777 number, I sat up straight and thought, “Holy shit…IT’S ON!” (As in, “Jesus is on his way, and boy is he pissed!”) And the stock market chaos had only just begun at that point… This is related to a new novel I’m writing, btw. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-stock-market-history/470503/6 "2008-11-01T00:28:11Z")
And what, pray tell, is the .68 symbolic of? ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-stock-market-history/470503/7 "2008-11-01T00:36:19Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > And what, pray tell, is the .68 symbolic of? I dunno. The novel begins with the -777.68 broadcast worldwide, that’s all I got so far. (I’m conflating current events with fictional ones, that’s how the novel is playing out.) Does .68 mean anything significant to you? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-stock-market-history/470503/8 "2008-11-01T00:56:23Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > Does .68 mean anything significant to you? It’s one one-hundredth less than .69, which is the funniest number between zero and one. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-stock-market-history/470503/9 "2008-11-01T02:17:33Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > It’s one one-hundredth less than .69, which is the funniest number between zero and one. Heh…well, this _is_ a fictional novel so it can be any number I feel like making it. 😃 (Indeed, it makes more sense story-wise to claim “artistic license” change it to +777.77.) ---
**Author:** ![Mongo\_Ponton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-stock-market-history/470503/10 "2008-11-01T02:24:07Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > It’s one one-hundredth less than .69, which is the funniest number between zero and one. Isn’t the punch line… .68, it’s just like .69 but I’ll owe you .01! Ha Ha, I crack myself up.