Eduard Manet paintings

Eduard Manet paintings
Edwin Austin Abbey paintings

It was a bitter return for U.S. financial markets today, with the bellwether Dow industrials badly battered, suffering their worst one-day point decline ever.
Today was the first trading day six days after terrorist attacks left Wall Street and the nation badly shaken. The resulting closure was the longest on the New York Stock Exchange since the 1930s.The high point may have been the opening bell, subsequent two minutes of silence and a singing of "God Bless America." Immediately after the last note faded, traders pushed blue chips down dramatically and the blue chip index never recovered.Even an emergency half-point interest rate cut was brushed off by traders.