It's Tuesday, September 1st. It was the busiest day ever on the New York Stock Exchange with a record 1.21 billion shares trading hands. Marty Goldensohn was at the New York Stock Exchange today looking at frazzled traders coming up for air.
Nobody falls asleep.
The screen is lit up and you're looking at a computer screen and it's just constantly lit up. Your eyes are getting a little blurry. You can't even see six feet away after a while cause you're glued to this TV set. On Wall Street, I'm Marty Goldensohn for Marketplace. That index managed to retrieve more than half the points it lost yesterday.