According to Yahoo finance, markets rallied on news of that the pig-latin boys, Uday and Qusay, are toast:
Close Dow 61.76 at 9,158.45, S&P 9.31 at 988.11, Nasdaq 24.61 at 1,706.02: The death of Saddam Hussein’s two sons helped the stock indices post gains across the board…a modest up open quickly gave way to continued profit-taking such as occurred yesterday…the Dow and S&P quickly sank into the red…the Nasdaq held up better, helped by an upgrade to the semiconductor equipment maker sector by Lehman…then came word from Iraq that Saddam’s sons were probably either captured or killed…that proved the stimulus stocks needed to break the lethargy that had set in and the indices all went solidly positive…
In related news, Howard Dean’s fundraising numbers are likely to decline, for two reasons: an improving economy is bad for Democrats, as is improving cooperation between Iraqi civilians and the Coalition. The pig-latin boys were knocked off on a walk-in tip.
Do the math, you can bet Saddam’s done it, as have the celebrating Iraqis:
Baghdad, Iraq — Red and yellow tracer bullets scythed through Baghdad’s sky in celebration Tuesday night when U.S. officials announced that Uday and Qusay Hussein were dead.
Two down, one to go.