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Re: Nasdaq Breaks Down for 2nd Day, Disrupts Trading


From: Alex Rubenstein <alex () nac net>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 22:04:36 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)



Well, Wcom/MFS has been upgrading every single Fujitsu SONET mux in NJ/NY
for the last few weeks.

But, I thought they were doing it at night..


On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Wayne Bouchard wrote:


NASDAQ is blaming this on a worldcom employee performing a "diagnostic
routine". Bets on someone crashing the ring they're on? :-)

-Wayne

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 06:31:09PM -0400, Rishi Singh wrote:

New York, June 29 (Bloomberg) -- The Nasdaq Stock Market broke down for a
second straight day, disrupting traders for about 90 minutes this afternoon
on one of the busiest days of the year. The No. 2 U.S. stock exchange
cancelled its aftermarket session.

Complete story here:

http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Top%20Financial%20News&s1=blk&tp
=ad_topright_topfin&refer=topsum&T=markets_bfgcgi_content99.ht&s2=blk&bt=ad_
position1_topfin&middle=ad_frame2_topfin&s=AOz0AhxPxTmFzZGFx

---
Wayne Bouchard
web () typo org
Network Engineer
http://www.typo.org/~web/resume.html


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