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Remembering Wall Street's Extraordinary Loss on 9/11
More than half the victims of the terrorist attacks in New York City worked for finance-related firms. Here are six, recalled by colleagues.
Illustration: Jessica Karl
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The scale of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is hard to fathom. The grim statistics — some 3,000 killed at the World Trade Center and Pentagon, billions of dollars in economic damage — don’t do justice to the suffering of every family, friend and colleague of the deceased. Financial firms were hit hard: Cantor Fitzgerald LP, which occupied the top five floors of One World Trade Center, alone lost 658 employees, nearly twice as many as the New York City Fire Department.
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