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To: Sharck who started this subject	9/16/2001 8:28:53 PM
From: Teri Garner	of 37746

Sending the wrong message What some small-minded investors are saying on the finance message boards By David Futrelle September 14, 2001: 6:51 p.m. ET NEW YORK (CNNfn) - It's hardly surprising that many Americans -- and many around the world -- have turned to the Net to find out the latest information about the rescue efforts in lower Manhattan and to search for a forum to vent their anger and air their grief. What is strange is how many of them have turned to the financial message boards to do so. You might think -- with the markets closed and the horror of Tuesday's attacks still fresh -- that these would be the last places anyone would want to hang out. But popular message boards on Yahoo Finance and Raging Bull and The Motley Fool are still getting thousands of posts a day. Many of the posts are simple appeals for investors not to panic when trading resumes come Monday. Patriots hope to inspire a wave of stock-buying in an attempt to "help the dead ones" and to send a message that the markets will withstand any assault. Even on the always-busy Cisco board on Yahoo Finance, the ongoing battles between bulls and bears have largely given way to expressions of sympathy and angry political rants. The few stock-related posts that remain ("CSCO IS A CASH MACHINE ... IAM BUYING MORE ON MONDAY MORNING, A LOT MORE") seem oddly out of place, even inappropriate. cnnfn.cnn.com

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