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Tuesday, 18 September, 2001, 09:41 GMT 10:41 UK

The NYSE building was draped with the Stars and Stripes

After its longest trading suspension since the 1930s, Wall Street returned to work on Monday. The return had both practical and symbolic value.

Among traders, brokers, and the thousands of others who work in New York's downtown financial district, the mood was grim but determined.

Government employee Allison Clavert

A checkpoint

Workers in the Wall Street area

Traders on the Madrid Stock Exchange

The NYSE opening bell

A trader raises an American flag

Two minutes' silence on the NYSE

Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill cheers the opening

The Sao Paulo stock exchange

A NYSE trader

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