Today's Top Videos: Sept. 11, RIM's 'Bold' & More...
Today marks the seventh year since the September 11 terrorist attacks—the Nymex and the White House obeserve a moment of silence to remember when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. Research in Motion's CEO talks about the company's new Blackberry—Bold. Following are today's top videos:
Remembering September 11th
“8:36am, that’s when the first plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center seven years ago today.”
US Heading For a Depression?
“Generally, we have been positioned rather cautiously. We have always been preaching that U.S. will go into a crisis and that the end result of this could possibly be a national bankruptcy of the United States, as the government will not be able to afford all those bailouts.”
—Martin Hennecke, Senior Manager, Tyche
Markets, Lehman & WaMu
“Certainly these events are tragic and I agree that there is a tremendous amount of fatigue. It’s also fatigue for retail investors, and fatigue for retirement planning investors. And investors are concerned about the safety and stability, not necessarily of Lehman Brothers , but the financial markets in general.”
—Lawrence Glazer, Managing Director, Mayflower Advisors
RIM's "Bold" Move
“[Google ] transformed navigation on the Internet with compelling search, and they contextualized ads to that and they really changed the advertising game. It’s innovative, but it doesn’t’ change what we need to do everyday so it’s not something I can control so I don’t turn my mind onto those things.”
—Jim Balsille, co-CEO, Research In Motion