NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 16: Pedestrians walk outside of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) September 16, 2008 in New York City. U.S. stocks continued to drop Tuesday morning for the second consecutive day, following yesterday's Dow Jones Industrial Average plunge of 4.4% or 504 points, being the worst single day loss since the terrorist attacks of September 2001. Today the Federal Reserve is scheduled to announce the target interest rates for the federal funds. It's not clear how the central bank will respond to recent turmoil in the world's financial markets. This comes after news of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc selling itself to Bank of America Corp, the financial firm Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and insurance giant American International Group Inc. (AIG) attempting to raise capital to stay afloat.
NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 16: Traders work on of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) September 16, 2008 in New York City. In trading yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.4% or 500 points, its worst single day loss since the terrorist attacks in September 2001. Today the Federal Reserve is scheduled to announce the target interest rates for the federal funds. It's not clear how the central bank will respond to recent turmoil in the world's financial markets. This comes after news of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc selling itself to Bank of America Corp, the financial firm Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and insurance giant American International Group Inc. (AIG) attempting to raise capital to stay afloat.
NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 16: Traders work on of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) September 16, 2008 in New York City. In trading yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.4% or 500 points, its worst single day loss since the terrorist attacks in September 2001. Today the Federal Reserve is scheduled to announce the target interest rates for the federal funds. It's not clear how the central bank will respond to recent turmoil in the world's financial markets. This comes after news of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc selling itself to Bank of America Corp, the financial firm Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and insurance giant American International Group Inc. (AIG) attempting to raise capital to stay afloat.
NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 16: Traders work on of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) September 16, 2008 in New York City. In trading yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.4% or 500 points, its worst single day loss since the terrorist attacks in September 2001. Today the Federal Reserve is scheduled to announce the target interest rates for the federal funds. It's not clear how the central bank will respond to recent turmoil in the world's financial markets. This comes after news of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc selling itself to Bank of America Corp, the financial firm Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and insurance giant American International Group Inc. (AIG) attempting to raise capital to stay afloat.
NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 16: Traders work on of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) September 16, 2008 in New York City. In trading yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.4% or 500 points, its worst single day loss since the terrorist attacks in September 2001. Today the Federal Reserve is scheduled to announce the target interest rates for the federal funds. It's not clear how the central bank will respond to recent turmoil in the world's financial markets. This comes after news of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc selling itself to Bank of America Corp, the financial firm Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and insurance giant American International Group Inc. (AIG) attempting to raise capital to stay afloat.
NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 16: Traders work on of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) September 16, 2008 in New York City. In trading yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.4% or 500 points, its worst single day loss since the terrorist attacks in September 2001. Today the Federal Reserve is scheduled to announce the target interest rates for the federal funds. It's not clear how the central bank will respond to recent turmoil in the world's financial markets. This comes after news of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc selling itself to Bank of America Corp, the financial firm Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and insurance giant American International Group Inc. (AIG) attempting to raise capital to stay afloat.
NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 16: Traders work on of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) September 16, 2008 in New York City. In trading yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.4% or 500 points, its worst single day loss since the terrorist attacks in September 2001. Today the Federal Reserve is scheduled to announce the target interest rates for the federal funds. It's not clear how the central bank will respond to recent turmoil in the world's financial markets. This comes after news of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc selling itself to Bank of America Corp, the financial firm Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and insurance giant American International Group Inc. (AIG) attempting to raise capital to stay afloat.
NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 16: Traders work on of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) September 16, 2008 in New York City. In trading yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.4% or 500 points, its worst single day loss since the terrorist attacks in September 2001. Today the Federal Reserve is scheduled to announce the target interest rates for the federal funds. It's not clear how the central bank will respond to recent turmoil in the world's financial markets. This comes after news of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc selling itself to Bank of America Corp, the financial firm Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and insurance giant American International Group Inc. (AIG) attempting to raise capital to stay afloat.
NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 16: Traders work on of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) September 16, 2008 in New York City. In trading yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.4% or 500 points, its worst single day loss since the terrorist attacks in September 2001. Today the Federal Reserve is scheduled to announce the target interest rates for the federal funds. It's not clear how the central bank will respond to recent turmoil in the world's financial markets. This comes after news of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc selling itself to Bank of America Corp, the financial firm Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and insurance giant American International Group Inc. (AIG) attempting to raise capital to stay afloat.
NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 16: Traders work on of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) September 16, 2008 in New York City. In trading yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.4% or 500 points, its worst single day loss since the terrorist attacks in September 2001. Today the Federal Reserve is scheduled to announce the target interest rates for the federal funds. It's not clear how the central bank will respond to recent turmoil in the world's financial markets. This comes after news of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc selling itself to Bank of America Corp, the financial firm Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and insurance giant American International Group Inc. (AIG) attempting to raise capital to stay afloat.
NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 16: Traders work on of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) September 16, 2008 in New York City. In trading yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.4% or 500 points, its worst single day loss since the terrorist attacks in September 2001. Today the Federal Reserve is scheduled to announce the target interest rates for the federal funds. It's not clear how the central bank will respond to recent turmoil in the world's financial markets. This comes after news of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc selling itself to Bank of America Corp, the financial firm Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and insurance giant American International Group Inc. (AIG) attempting to raise capital to stay afloat.
Art Cashen, center, director of NYSE floor operations for UBS at the New York Stock Exchange, is among the traders gathering around a post on the floor of the NYSE, Tuesday, July 8, 2008 in New York. Wall Street fluctuated, with investors still jittery about the nation's ailing financial system but relieved to hear Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke say the central bank might extend its lending efforts to investment banks.