Editing Dow Jones Industrial Average (section)

===2000s===
[[File:DJIA during 911.svg|thumb|left|The Dow fell 14.3% after the [[September 11 attacks]]. Exchanges were closed from September 12 through September 16, 2001.]]
On September 17, 2001, the first day of trading after the [[September 11 attacks]] on the United States, the Dow fell 7.1%. However, the Dow began an upward trend shortly after the attacks, and regained all lost ground to close above 10,000 for the year. In 2002, the Dow dropped to a four-year low of 7,286 on September 24, 2002, due to the [[stock market downturn of 2002]] and lingering effects of the [[dot-com bubble]]. Overall, while the NASDAQ index fell roughly 75% and the S&P 500 index fell roughly 50% between 2000 and 2002, the Dow only fell 27% during the same period. In 2003, the Dow held steady within the 7,000 to 9,000-point level and recovered to the 10,000 mark by year end.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dow Jones – DJIA – 100 Year Historical Chart |url=https://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historical-chart |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831074740/https://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historical-chart |archive-date=August 31, 2020 |access-date=September 2, 2020 |website=MacroTrends.net}}</ref>

The Dow continued climbing and reached a record high of 14,198.10 on October 11, 2007, a mark which was not matched until March 2013.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/03/dow-jones-at-all-time-high.html | title=The Dow Jones Has Never Been Higher | first=Josh  | last=Voorhees  | work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] | date=March 5, 2013 | access-date=September 15, 2019 | archive-date=July 29, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729224554/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/03/dow-jones-at-all-time-high.html | url-status=live }}</ref> It then dropped over the next year due to the [[2008 financial crisis]].

On September 15, 2008, a wider [[financial crisis]] became evident after the [[Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers]] along with the economic effect of record high oil prices which had reached almost $150 per [[Barrel of oil equivalent|barrel]] two months earlier. The Dow lost more than 500 points for the day, returning to its mid-July lows below 11,000.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://money.cnn.com/2008/09/15/markets/markets_newyork2/index.htm | title=Stocks get pummeled | first=Alexandra | last=Twin | work=[[CNN]] | date=September 21, 2008 | access-date=September 15, 2019 | archive-date=January 12, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112033135/https://money.cnn.com/2008/09/15/markets/markets_newyork2/index.htm | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/09/16/this-day-in-crisis-history-sept-15-16-2008/ | title=This Day in Crisis History: Sept. 15-16, 2008 | first=Paul | last=Vigna | work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] | date=September 16, 2013 | url-access=subscription | access-date=September 15, 2019 | archive-date=September 3, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190903215838/https://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/09/16/this-day-in-crisis-history-sept-15-16-2008/ | url-status=live }}</ref> A series of [[bailout]] packages, including the [[Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008]], proposed and implemented by the [[Federal Reserve]] and [[United States Department of the Treasury]] did not prevent further losses. After nearly six months of extreme volatility during which the Dow experienced its largest one-day point loss, largest daily point gain, and largest intraday range (of more than 1,000 points) at the time, the index closed at a new 12-year low of 6,547.05 on March 9, 2009,<ref>[https://www.google.com/finance/?cid=983582&startdate=Mar+05,+2009&enddate=Mar+09,+2009 ''Dow Jones Industrial Average Historical Prices''] . [[Google Finance]]</ref> its lowest close since April 1997. The Dow had lost 20% of its value in only six weeks.

Towards the latter half of 2009, the average rallied towards the 10,000 level amid optimism that the [[Great Recession]], the [[United States housing bubble]] and the [[2008 financial crisis]], were easing and possibly coming to an end. For the decade, the Dow saw a rather substantial pullback for a negative return from 11,497.12 to 10,428.05, a loss of a 9.3%.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/12-dr-dooms-shred-2010-investing-optimism-2010-01-05 | title=Optimist? Or pessimist? Test your 2010 strategy! | first=Paul B. | last=Farrell | work=[[Marketwatch]] | date=January 5, 2010 | access-date=September 15, 2019 | archive-date=August 10, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810235746/https://www.marketwatch.com/story/12-dr-dooms-shred-2010-investing-optimism-2010-01-05 | url-status=live }}</ref>