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To: Jerry Olson who wrote (16465)	9/16/2001 6:20:30 PM
From: Smart_Money	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 208838

Who was the lone representative Voting AGAINST the measures of war. I was watching CSPAN and it showed ONE congress person voting no but had no name. I am just curious. It has to be a liberal.

To: Jerry Olson who wrote (16465)	9/16/2001 7:21:42 PM
From: Smart_Money	Respond to of 208838

NYSE curbs, circuit breakers By The Associated Press Last Update: 7:03 PM ET Sept. 16, 2001 NEW YORK (AP) -- A look at the series of so-called circuit breakers in place to keep the stock market from falling too sharply in any one trading day: When the following thresholds in the Dow Jones industrial average are reached, trading is halted market-wide for the stated period of time. A 1,100-point drop before 2 p.m. will halt trading for one hour; for 30 minutes if between 2 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.; and have no effect if 2:30 p.m. or later. A 2,150-point drop before 1 p.m. will halt trading for two hours; for one hour if between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.; and for the rest of the day if 2 p.m. or later. A 3,250-point drop will halt trading for the rest of the day regardless of the time. These thresholds are recalculated quarterly and are intended to be roughly 10 percent, 20 percent and 30 percent of the closing levels at the end of the previous month. Curbs on certain trading are triggered when the DJIA moves 210 points or more above or below its closing value on the previous trading day and removed when the DJIA is above or below the prior day's close by 100 points. These trading collars restrict index-arbitrage trading. The percentage levels were first implemented in April 1998 and are adjusted on the first trading day of each quarter. Source: NYSE

To: Jerry Olson who wrote (16465)	9/16/2001 8:28:10 PM
From: Teri Garner	Respond to of 208838

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

To: Jerry Olson who wrote (16465)	9/16/2001 9:01:30 PM
From: Smart_Money	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 208838

Here is an email floating around that describes the terror. The New York City Fire Fighters...are the bravest in the world and they saved countless lives. A memorial monument should be erected for those brave souls. Email is below. SM Dear all my friends, Some called to my home on sight, Thanks. I am alive. Here is my experience on Sep. 11. 8:45, I was in my office at the 78th floor in 1 World Trade Centre (the first one being hit) when I heard a huge muffled sound from somewhere right above my floor. The huge body of the building shook violently for some five seconds, pieces of broken items cluttered up with tons of office papers swirled in front of the windows on the east side of the building. It was 8:45 am, 9/11/2001, NY. Kit (my boss) and me are the only persons in the office. We stared at each other for a short while before coming up to inspect our conditions: the building seemed steady, we did not find any fires or smokes within our angle of view, and we were hearing terrified people screamed by from outside the door. so we both agree to stay in the office without rushing out into the possibly poisoning air in the corridors. We stayed there for 22 minutes until the second hit by on tower 2. We changed our mind saw a huge flame skipped across the window. We didn¡¯t realise the building could have been crashed down before this. I did the following during the 22 minutes: 1. Called my wife at home, told her we had been most possibly attacked by a bomb, but I had been all ok and waiting for evacuation; 2. received 2 calls from worrying friends: Mei and Hua; 3. sent an email with a large attachment. (The email has been downloaded printed out today. It shows that the sending time was at 9:06:42 AM); 4. picked up some data CDs; and 5. locked the door after us. We had no trouble getting down the first 30 stories in the fire escape until finally met with the crowd at around 50th floor. It lead to a long slow journey afterwards. It was hot and humid in the stairs, 2 but not 3 guys could walk abreast. People there were really gentle and calm. Small groups of fire fighters were moving contrary to our direction-upstairs, some appeared by the corner. I believe I saw the faces of nearly every fire fighter later reported missing. When we arrived at the 6th floor, all of a sudden, a sound noise with sever shaking of the building attacked, which I realised afterwards was the total collapse of tower 2. The attack looked, through a half opened door by the stairs, quite like a thunder storm in everything including the blinking lighting. It blocked our exit at a lower floor. People were redirected by fire fighters with flash lights in their hands, to walk through a side walk to another fire escape, where we joined another procession in the building to came out of the building and staggered along over the rubbles from tower 2. Five minutes after our rushing out, the tower 1 collapsed right behind us. The fire fighters, all left behind, knew their fate. their unbelievably strong mind were never inferior to the hijackers. With sadness.