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Monday, September 17, 2001
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It's Monday, September 17, 2001. I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles.

The facts are these: The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 684 points today. Significant, but not historic. That's the most number of points the Dow has lost in a day. But that drop of seven point one percent doesn't even put it in the top ten biggest percentage drops. The 1987 stock market crash was three times bigger. The NASDAQ fell 115 points or 6 point eight percent. That was the outcome on the first day of trading since terrorist attacks caused the markets to close for the longest stretch since the Great Depression and on a day central bankers aggressively lowered interest rates. From New York, Marketplace's Bob Moon has today's chronology.

You can hear Bob Moons's report as a part of the whole broadcast by clicking the audio link above, or listen to the individual piece here.

You can hear David Johnson's report as a part of the whole broadcast by clicking the audio link above, or listen to the individual piece here.

Rundown

For our feature coverage of the World Trade Center disaster, please visit http://www.marketplace.org/features/unaccountable/.

Look-Ahead

Coming up on September 18: With a new kind of normal for Wall Street, will a second day of trading boost and bust? That's later on Marketplace, from PRI.