Rembrandt Samson And Delilah painting

Rembrandt Samson And Delilah painting
Guido Reni The Archangel Michael painting
Some traders already had speculated the central bank would cut interest rates before then, especially if crucial employment numbers due on Friday point to more worrisome signs of an economic slowdown. But very few were expecting the mid-week Fed announcement. "People were caught off guard, it hit the wires and there was no warning, and if you were not looking at the screen, it cost you money either in lost opportunity or by the market moving so quickly," Coolidge said. The Nasdaq was lifted by a surge in the shares of heavyweights like Internet gear makers Cisco Systems Inc. and Juniper Networks and software giant Microsoft Corp, among others. Cisco, up $8 at $41-5/16, was the most actively traded issue on Nasdaq, while Juniper rose $29-7/16 to $132, for a gain of more than 28 percent.