Dow Jones industrial average jumps 300 points, or 1.9 percent, as wild week continues By Washington Examiner October 17, 2014 3:53 pm FacebookTwitterEmailPrint Add Washington Examiner on Google FacebookTwitterEmailPrint NEW YORK (AP) — Dow Jones industrial average jumps 300 points, or 1.9 percent, as wild week continues. Related Content House Republicans signal unhappiness with phone record provision in government funding bill House Burchett likens Trumpcare to asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, says it’ll ‘wipe out Schumer’ Columnists The changing history of the shutdown House WATCH LIVE: House Rules Committee hearing on bill to reopen government Business Trump downplays concerns over proposed 50-year mortgages: ‘It’s not even a big deal’