On anniversary, stock market closes at exact 9/11 level

Eerie coincidence or coded Wall Street tribute?

Aaron Dykes
Prison Planet.com
Saturday, September 12, 2009

FDR famously said, “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”

Whether or not that mantra extends to business, everyday life or the ‘free’ market is up for debate, and perhaps subject to one’s personal convictions.

At any rate, the stock market, at the center of today’s economic crisis, closed on the eighth anniversary of 9/11 at nearly the exact same level the Dow Jones industrial average was at the day of that tragedy. Was this an eerie coincidence or some kind of coded Wall Street tribute?

As the AP, Forbes and others reported, Friday’s market closed within a tenth of a point of the closing figure on September 10, 2001:

“The Dow Jones industrial average is down 22 at 9,605.41. That is nearly identical to the Dow’s finish of 9,605.51 eight years ago, the day before the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.”

As CNN Money points out, the market never opened on 9/11, or for the next four trading days, so that figure was technically in place on that fateful and tragic day:

“Financial markets never opened on Sept. 11, 2001, and remained closed for the next four trading sessions. When stocks began trading again on Sept. 17, the results were predictably gloomy. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 684.71 points, its biggest one-day point loss in history.”

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