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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (331759)	2/27/2007 9:15:45 PM
From: Secret_Agent_Man	Respond to of 436258

AP-Swiftness of Dow Drop Due to Computers[yeah riight] Tuesday February 27, 8:01 pm ET Computer Glitch Causes Dow Jones Industrial Average to Fall Faster Than Normal NEW YORK (AP) -- A computer glitch triggered a sudden plunge in the Dow Jones industrial average at mid-afternoon Tuesday, turning an already bad day in stocks into a head-turning spectacle. Dow Jones & Co., the media company that manages the well-known index of 30 blue chip stocks, said it discovered shortly before 2 p.m. that its computers weren't properly handling the day's huge volume in trades at the New York Stock Exchange. biz.yahoo.com