NYMEX will observe moments of
silence on Thursday, September 11, 2008, marking the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attack on
the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Names of the exchange community members who lost
their lives in the tragedy that day that will be read in a brief ceremony on the NYMEX trading
floor at 2:45 p.m.
Open outcry trading will cease
for one minute at 8:46 a.m. and 9:03 a.m., the times the airplanes crashed into each tower and
again at 9:59 a.m. and 10:29 a.m., marking the times that each tower collapsed.
All electronic market users are
asked to participate in these moments of silence in memory of the personnel affiliated with NYMEX
and ICE Futures USA (formerly the New York Board of Trade) who lost their lives that day by
refraining from trading NYMEX and COMEX products on CME Globex® and Clearport® during these
times.
The individuals who will be
remembered include:
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Dennis Foo (member of COMEX
Division of NYMEX and NYBOT)
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Edward Ryan (former member of
NYMEX and COMEX)
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Steven Furman (former NYMEX
member)
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Joseph Shea (NYBOT
member)
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Doug Gardner (NYBOT
member)
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Paul Skrzypek (former NYMEX
member)
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Joseph Heller (COMEX
member)
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Carlton Valvo (former NYMEX
member)
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Joseph Holland (NYMEX
member)
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Elkin Yuen (NYMEX member)
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Robert Hussa (former COMEX
member)
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Evan Baron (Carr Futures)
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Joseph Kellet (NYMEX
member)
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Michael Canty (Carr
Futures)
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Neil Leavy (former COMEX
member)
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Christopher Dincuff (Carr
Futures)
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James McAlary, Jr. (NYMEX
member)
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Brendan Dolan (Carr
Futures)
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Thomas McGinnis (NYMEX
member)
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Karen Klitzman (former NYMEX
vice president of research)
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Mark Motroni (member of NYMEX
and NYBOT)
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Damian Meehan (Carr
Futures)
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David Nelson (COMEX
member)
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Peter Raimondi (Carr
Futures)
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Edward Oliver (NYMEX
member)
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Lonny Stone (Carr
Futures)
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Robert O’Shea (NYMEX
member)
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Scott Timmes (Carr
Futures)
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Patrick O’Shea (member of COMEX
and NYBOT)
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Christopher Traina (Carr
Futures)
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Mark Petrocelli (NYMEX Brent
permit holder)
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Alfred Vukosa (former NYMEX
staff)
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After September 11, 2001, NYMEX
was the first exchange in New York to reopen trading on its electronic trading system on September
14, 2001, and the first business to reopen west of Ground Zero, when it resumed floor trading on
September 17.
Should
you have any questions or require any further information, please contact
exchangeinfo@nymex.com
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