The ____ is a price-weighted average of stock prices of 30 large U.S.firms.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a price-weighted index that tracks the stock prices of 30 large publicly traded companies in the United States. It is one of the oldest and most widely recognized stock market benchmarks, and is often used to gauge the overall health of the American stock market. The other options - B) Standard and Poor's 500, C) New York Stock Exchange Index, and D) Nasdaq - are all different indexes that track different groups of stocks or companies, but none of them are specifically price-weighted averages of 30 large U.S. firms like the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

The ____ Is a Price-Weighted Average of Stock Prices of 30