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RUMOR ON WALLSTREET: Bin Laden Captured
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| 8-20-03
| John Sanchez
Posted on 08/20/2003 8:56:03 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed
Our local financial reporter just attributed today's stock market gains to a rumor sweeping Wall Street that Osama Bin Laden has just been captured.
ONLY A RUMOR! (But you heard it here first.)
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: rumors
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To: Beelzebubba
I'll bump for a good rumor any day.
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posted on
08/20/2003 8:56:47 AM PDT
by
NYpeanut
(gulping for air, I started crying and yelling at him, "Why did you lie to me?")
To: Beelzebubba
Buy on rumor, sell on news.
3
posted on
08/20/2003 8:56:54 AM PDT
by
Camachee
(`)
To: Beelzebubba
HEY!
I told you not to post that!!!!
;)
-- lates
-- jrawk
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posted on
08/20/2003 8:57:02 AM PDT
by
jrawk
To: Camachee
Is the market going to go up or down? Answer; Yes.
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posted on
08/20/2003 8:57:49 AM PDT
by
umgud
(gov't has more money than it needs, but never as much as it wants)
To: Beelzebubba
Uh....right.
6
posted on
08/20/2003 8:57:53 AM PDT
by
mhking
To: Beelzebubba
thanx for the headsup
To: Beelzebubba
It wouldn't be the first time this rumor has circulated. Those Wall Streeters sure are pranksters.
8
posted on
08/20/2003 8:58:14 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: Beelzebubba
OH YES and he was with Elvis and Hitler...Flying to the middle earth!
9
posted on
08/20/2003 8:58:19 AM PDT
by
DAPFE8900
(q)
To: Beelzebubba
Rumors are easy, facts are hard.
10
posted on
08/20/2003 8:58:40 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(Are we conservatives, or are we Republicans?)
To: Beelzebubba
Ess awl durty rotten yanqui kalitalist proighandah. Hi hem nut captured!
:~)
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posted on
08/20/2003 8:59:03 AM PDT
by
MindBender26
(For more news as it happens, stay tuned to your local FReeper station.........)
To: Beelzebubba
Do I need to get some Dr. Pepper and pop some Popcorn and jump in the shower?
12
posted on
08/20/2003 8:59:20 AM PDT
by
Maigrey
(Watch your wallets! Socialists on the loose! They want your money for their pork!)
To: Beelzebubba
Well, a rumor is an ugly sink and I sink it's about time that ve had vun!
13
posted on
08/20/2003 8:59:27 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
To: 1Old Pro
Well, that explains the sudden jump of the Dow around 11:00. Hey, whatever it takes to raise the value of my 301K. (which until recently was a 201K) :-)
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posted on
08/20/2003 8:59:48 AM PDT
by
Coop
(God bless our troops!)
To: Beelzebubba
How do you capture rotting flesh and cruched bones?
To: Beelzebubba
Stock market rumors are usually false.
To: Beelzebubba
Osama Bin Laden has not been captured. In fact, he is in the US preparing to pull the "Big Switch" again to shut down power to the whole nets of infidel dogs this time. < /baghdad bob>
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posted on
08/20/2003 9:01:49 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(A flash mob of one.)
To: Beelzebubba
From Yahoo:
11:30AM: Although intelligence of yesterday's bombings incited only a muted reaction from the market, the rumor of Bin Laden's capture has lifted all of the major averages within reach of their respective session highs and the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 to their best levels of the morning... As a result, the oil services, banking, transportation, utility, retail, biotech, disk drive, networking, and computer hardware sectors, some of which had previously been in negative territory, are finding themselves above the watermark... The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq are currently right below the unchanged line...
18
posted on
08/20/2003 9:02:04 AM PDT
by
ladtx
( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
To: Thane_Banquo
U.S. stocks pare losses on bin Laden rumorWed August 20, 2003 11:51 AM ET (Updates to include bin Laden rumor, comment by U.S. official)
By Vivian Chu
NEW YORK, Aug 20 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks pared losses in late morning on Wednesday, driven higher on rumors that U.S. forces had captured al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
However, a U.S. official who asked not to be identified told Reuters it was "absolutely not true" that bin Laden had been captured.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was off 10.48 points, or 0.12 percent, at 9,417.44, cutting its losses from early morning. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX rose 0.39 point, or 0.04 percent, at 1002.72. The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC rose 1.65 points or 0.09 percent, to 1,762.70.
"I think the market was improving on a rumor that we caught bin Laden again, which makes it like an even 25 times that we have caught him so far," said Craig Cummings, a partner at Cantor Fitzgerald, noting the rumor has spread through market several times this year.
Trading on the New York Stock Exchange was light, which may have exaggerated the effects of the rumor on the market, traders said.
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posted on
08/20/2003 9:02:46 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Admin Moderator
Breaking news?
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