•Huge
financial transactions have been reported to have taken place at
computers at the World Trade Center minutes before the attacks.
•Selling short (borrowing a stock and selling it, then returning it later through purchasing).
•Markets outside the United States.
•Disappearances of gold and securities from the World Trade Center.
•The
specific financial firms directly hit by planes, and the financial
investigations sabotaged by the WTC or Pentagon attacks.
•Insurance payoffs, particularly to the owner of destroyed buildings, particularly to Larry Silverstein.
•Large increases in the M1 money supply in the United States have been
reported for July and August 2001 and explanations have been sought.