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Times Square, Nasdaq reopened after scare (Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters) –
New York City's Times Square was closed briefly and three buildings including the Nasdaq headquarters were evacuated in a security scare on Wednesday, a day before the traditional
festivities in the famed intersection.
The street closings and evacuations were prompted by a police investigation of a suspicious van that local media reported had been parked on Broadway for two days.
No explosives were found in the van, which police examined with robots and
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The typically busy Times Square intersection, Nasdaq building and two other buildings were cleared of people during the investigation which lasted about two hours.
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went uninterrupted and the impact was minimal.
“There was a quick small sell-off in equities which would be more attributable to people closing some positions in fear of an electronic breakdown rather than initiating speculative short positions,” said Joe Kinahan, chief derivatives strategist at
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to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner. The airline incident has prompted heightened
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(Reporting by Doris Frankel, Ellen Wulfhorst and Elinor Comlay; Editing by Daniel Trotta and Vicki Allen)