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Article: Wall Street Is Ready for Trading, Thanks to Backup Power.

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August 15, 2003
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By Danielle Dimartino, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 15--For two hours Thursday afternoon, fear swept through the caverns of Wall Street that terrorists might once again shut down trading at the largest stock exchange in the world.

Forty-five minutes after the power went out in New York City, one shaken Wall Street worker who lived through the terror of Sept. 11, described her computer going blank for a few moments before a backup generator kicked in.

That was at 3:11 p.m. Dallas time. By 5 p.m., the New York Stock Exchange announced that it would open for trading as usual Friday, even if it had to use ...

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