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NY Lottery Numbers: 911 - S&P Futures Close At
Sat Sep 14 06:45:32 2002
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NY Lottery Numbers: 911 - S&P Futures Close At: 911
9-12-2


ALBANY, NY (AP) - On the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks, a date
known as 9-11, the evening numbers drawn in the New York Lottery were 9-1-1.

"The numbers were picked in the standard random fashion using all the same
protocols," said lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman. "It's just the way the
numbers came up."

Lottery officials won't know until Thursday morning how many people played
those numbers or the total payout, she said.

For the evening numbers game, the New York Lottery selects from balls
numbered zero to nine circulating in a machine at the lottery office. Three
levers are pressed, and three balls are randomly brought up into tubes and
then displayed.


Traders Puzzled By Eery 911 Closing Of S&P Futures

By Kristina Zurla
9-12-2

CHICAGO (AP) - In an ironic twist, the September Standard & Poor's 500
futures contract closed Tuesday at 911.00 - a day before the one-year
anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

There was some buzz on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange stock index futures
trading floor Wednesday about why that happened, but there were no reports
of collusion or price-fixing.

"It was bizarre, it was strange, but it wasn't manufactured," said Richard
Canlione, vice president of institutional financial futures at Salomon Smith
Barney. "It was just the rules of coincidence ... That's just where the
market was."

"It just proves the market God was with us, remembering the day, too," said
one CME trader.

The start of trading was delayed Wednesday in honor of those killed in the
attacks.

Market players noted prices were already moving higher throughout Tuesday
after two prior up days, so it wasn't as if an abrupt change in direction
took place to achieve the numerical equivalent of Sept. 11.

Some thought perhaps suspicious activity could have taken place, but most
brushed it off as a "patriotic rally" and didn't see the harm in it.

"I'm always kinda paranoid, and I find the fact that we settled there kind
of eerie, but I don't think we should dwell on it or read too much into it,"
said Tim Haefke, a stock index futures trader and president of Top-Notch
Trading.

The futures contract is an obligation to buy or sell a basket of stocks
composing the Standard & Poor's stock index at a set date for a fixed price.

Kristina Zurla is a correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires
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