{"id":1621,"date":"2003-07-22T19:23:50","date_gmt":"2003-07-23T02:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/07\/hussein-boys-die-markets-rally-iraqis-rejoice\/"},"modified":"2003-07-22T19:23:50","modified_gmt":"2003-07-23T02:23:50","slug":"hussein-boys-die-markets-rally-iraqis-rejoice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/22\/hussein-boys-die-markets-rally-iraqis-rejoice\/","title":{"rendered":"Hussein boys die, markets rally, Iraqis rejoice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAccording to Yahoo finance, markets rallied on news of that the pig-latin boys, Uday and Qusay, are toast:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nClose Dow  61.76 at 9,158.45, S&#038;P  9.31 at 988.11, Nasdaq  24.61 at 1,706.02: The death of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s two sons helped the stock indices post gains across the board&#8230;a modest up open quickly gave way to continued profit-taking such as occurred yesterday&#8230;the Dow and S&#038;P quickly sank into the red&#8230;the Nasdaq held up better, helped by an upgrade to the semiconductor equipment maker sector by Lehman&#8230;then came word from Iraq that Saddam&#8217;s sons were probably either captured or killed&#8230;that proved the stimulus stocks needed to break the lethargy that had set in and the indices all went solidly positive&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In related news, Howard Dean&#8217;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,92591,00.html\">walk-in tip<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Do the math, you can bet Saddam&#8217;s done it, as have the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/ny-wosons0723,0,2983865.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines\">celebrating Iraqis:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBaghdad, Iraq &#8212; Red and yellow tracer bullets scythed through Baghdad&#8217;s sky in celebration Tuesday night when U.S. officials announced that Uday and Qusay Hussein were dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two down, one to go.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#038;P 9.31 at 988.11, Nasdaq 24.61 at 1,706.02: The death of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s two sons helped the stock indices post gains across the board&#8230;a modest up open quickly gave way to continued &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/22\/hussein-boys-die-markets-rally-iraqis-rejoice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hussein boys die, markets rally, Iraqis rejoice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-q9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}