The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a corporate entity
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Reference materials and academic literature consistently define the Dow Jones Industrial Average as a stock market index tracking prominent companies rather than a corporate entity.
Our study aims to investigate the interdependence between international stock markets and sentiments from financial news in stock forecasting. We adopt the Temporal Fusion Transformers (TFT) to incorporate intra and inter-market correlations and the interaction between the information flow, i.e. causality, of financial news sentiment and the dynamics of the stock market. The current study distinguishes itself from existing research by adopting Dynamic Transfer Entropy (DTE) to establish an accurate information flow propagation between stock and sentiments. DTE has the advantage of providing time series that mine information flow propagation paths between certain parts of the time series, highlighting marginal events such as spikes or sudden jumps, which are crucial in financial time series. The proposed methodological approach involves the following elements: a FinBERT-based textual analysis of financial news articles to extract sentiment time series, the use of the Transfer Entropy and corresponding heat maps to analyze the net information flows, the calculation of the DTE time series, which are considered as co-occurring covariates of stock Price, and TFT-based stock forecasting. The Dow Jones Industrial Average index of 13 countries, along with daily financial news data obtained through the New York Times API, are used to demonstrate the validity and superiority of the proposed DTE-based causality method along with TFT for accurate stock Price and Return forecasting compared to state-of-the-art time series forecasting methods.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow (), is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.
The DJIA is one of the oldest and most commonly followed equity indices. It is price-weighted, unlike other common indices such as the Nasdaq Composite or S&P 500, which use market capitalization. The primary pitfall of this ap
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow (), is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.
The DJIA is one of the oldest and most commonly followed equity indices. It is price-weighted, unlike other common indices such as the Nasdaq Composite or S&P 500, which use market capitalization. The primary pitfall of this approach is that a stock's price—not the size of the company—determines its relative importance in the index. For example, as of March 2025, Goldman Sachs represented the largest component of the index with a market capitalization of ~$167B. In contrast, Apple's market capitalization was ~$3.3T at the time, but it fell outside the top 10 components in the index.
The DJIA also contains fewer stocks than many other major indices, which could heighten risk due to stock concentration. However, some investors believe it could be less volatile when the market is rapidly rising or falling due to its components being well-established large-cap companies.
The value of the index can also be calculated as the sum of the stock prices of the companies included in the index, divided by a factor, which is approximately 0.168 as of July 2026. The factor is changed whenever a constituent company undergoes a stock split so that the value of the index is unaffected by the stock split.
First calculated on May 26, 1896, the index is the second-oldest among U.S. market indices, after the Dow Jones Transportation Average. It was created by Charles Dow, co-founder of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones & Company, and named after him and his business associate, statistician Edward Jones.
The index is maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices, an entity majority-owned by S&P Global. Its components are selected by a committee that includes three representatives from S&P Dow Jones Indices and two representatives from the Wall Street Journal. The ten components with the largest dividend yields are commonly referred to as the Dogs of the Dow. As with all stock prices, the prices of the constituent stocks and consequently the value of the index itself are affected by the performance of the respective…
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Objective: To evaluate whether historical performance a]g allows the dynamic weighting of the Dow Jones Industrial Average components to be optimized using the Treynor–Black model and to improve performance as related to the index.
Methodology: For the assets that compose the DJIA in each period, α is estimated using CAPM and multifactor models to construct an active portfolio weighted by the appraisal ratio (a/idiosyncratic variance), applying trailing rolling windows and no leverage. The paper also adds a chronological 80%-20% temporal validation and a progressive Jensen alpha estimated with a 252-day rolling window.
Results: The CAPM-based model achieves an average annual return close to 13.8% compared to 7.8% for the index, with an approximate 66.9% probability of outperforming it and a superior risk-return relationship. The 80%-20% temporary validation preserves the advantage out of sample: in the OOS block, the portfolio records a mean return of 13.7% versus 10.3% for the DJIAand an average progressive Jensen alpha of 0.0470.
Limitations: The results depend on the stability of a, changes in market regimes, sensitivity in the estimation of specific risk, and implementation costs that are not modeled in the validation exercise.
Originality: It integrates performance-based allocation (appraisal), preserving temporary comparability with the DJIA.
Conclusions: Appraisal-based weighting improves relative performance when the signals are statistically robust
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