On March 30, 1867, the two parties agreed that the United States would pay Russia $7.2 million for the territory of Alaska. For less that 2 cents an acre, the United States acquired nearly 600,000 square miles.
Dow Jones & Company is an American publishing and financial information firm that has been owned by News Corp since 2007. The company was best known for the publication of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and related market statistics, Dow Jones Newswire and a number of financial publications.n May 1, 2007, Dow Jones released a statement confirming that News Corporation, led by Rupert Murdoch, had made an unsolicited offer of $60 per share, or $5 billion, for Dow Jones.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average? next page If you watch the news, you hear all the time about the Dow Jones Industrial Average and other aÂ­verages like the S&P 500 or The Russel 2000. These are market averages designed to tell you how companies traded on the stock market are doing in general. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is simply the average value of 30 large, industrial stocks. Big companies like General Motors, Goodyear, IBM and Exxon are the kinds of companies that make up this index. See Dow Jones & Company for details on how the average is calculated.