Word: bells
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...Exchange opened on a solemn note, with two minutes of silence in honor of those who died in the terrorist attacks. The silence was followed by the singing of “God Bless America,” led by an officer of the Marine Corps, and the opening bell was rung by New York City rescue workers...
Though the market dropped after the bell rang, earlier predictions of panicked selling were thankfully proven false. Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan acted forcefully to maintain confidence, making half-point cuts in the interest rate to provide easier credit to businesses. The European Central Bank quickly followed suit, leading to a rally rather than a decline in European markets...
...Problem was, the post-apocalyptic resumption of U.S. stock trading Monday was also arguably the most breathlessly anticipated session of all time. Three thousand traders crowd the floor of the NYSE every day, but as we all milled around outside in the hours before the reopening bell - breathing air still gray and bitter with smoke and dust and dawn - they were easily outnumbered by the professional gawkers who had descended on the Big Board from all over the world, panning for soundbites, owing copy...
...began watching the direct feed of the one event NYSE chairman Richard Grasso really wanted us to see: the well-polished head of NYSE chairman Richard Grasso delivering his opening line - "Welcome back to the greatest market in the world" - and preparing to ring the opening bell...
...Then came the two-minute moment of silence (broken once by an inadvertent bell) and the Marine woman singing "God Bless America" in an operatic tremolo, and finally, at 9:34, the bells dinged, Grasso beamed, and the stock market was back from the ashes...