September_11th_And_The_Economy

September 11th And The Economy September 11, 2001 was a day that Americans and the world for that matter will not soon forget. When two planes went into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and two others went into the Pentagon and a small town in Pennsylvania, the world was rocked. Everyone in the United States felt very vulnerable and unsafe from attacks that might follow. As a result, confidence in the CIA, FBI, and the airlines were shaken. People were scared to fly after what had happened. The events that unfolded on September 11th and the days that followed also profoundly effected the stock market. It is the purpose of this paper is to examine what happened to both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the NASDAQ after September 11th and how it is similar to events such as the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the Gulf War in terms of how the stock market experienced a blow and bounced back after a while. The stock market remained closed from September 11th until September 17th, almost a week after the attacks. When the markets re-opened after a weeklong absence, people stock, market, september, after, stocks, 11th, war, people, numbers, gas, about, world, very, prices, points, jones, dow, day, november, markets, events, average, attacks, 13th, while, terrorism, out, nasdaq, interesting, industrial, history, gulf, going, first, closing