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...early afternoon, key industry players including American, Continental, Delta, United and US Airways were all reporting losses of at least 40 percent. By the end of the day, the Dow Jones industrial average had plummeted a record 684.81 points...
...markets are now closed after the first day of trading since last Tuesday’s tragedy, and economic analysts have breathed a sigh of relief. Though the 680-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average was the largest in the history of the index, it was much smaller in percentage terms than the crash of 1987—which did not bring substantial economic distress. The financial world experienced severe personal and physical loss in the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, but like the country as a whole, it seems intent on rebuilding and moving forward...
...schoolteacher back from summer break. Five months after what just about everyone figured was a bottom, stock indexes are plunging anew. Last week the Standard & Poor's 500 dipped below its April 4 low, and it has now erased more than three years' worth of gains. The NASDAQ and Dow are flirting with their April lows...
...They have lost," Grasso said before the bell. Then maybe you had to wonder. Investors lopped 600 points off the Dow and 100 off the NASDAQ in under an hour, rolling both indexes back to lows nobody ever wanted to see again and very nearly wiping that relentless smile off Grasso?s face in the middle of his 10 a.m. press conference...
...went up in smoke, it became clear before long that this wasn?t going to be a coward?s panic either. The losses stabilized by late morning and actually bounced a bit off their lows before slipping again in later afternoon and then bouncing again. The final tally: The Dow down 677 points, the NASDAQ down 115 - and it did seem as if the involuntary four-day layoff didn't hurt. The machinery worked, the connections connected, volume hit a record on the NYSE and it still wasn?t anything the hastily reconstructed infrastructure couldn?t handle. A promised halt...