In more ways than one? Mail call: “Power just went down for all 36 floors at state street HQ in Boston. Trading desk is the only thing functioning as it’s on generator power.”

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Comments (10)

  1. Posted by Yann_Itor | March 5, 2009 at 1:48 PM

    It is only the annex building that is attached to the tower, everything else is fine.

  2. Posted by guest | March 5, 2009 at 2:02 PM

    Wait, State Street has a trading desk? Unpossible.

  3. Posted by guest | March 5, 2009 at 2:03 PM

    Cmon Bess, what’s next, updates on when Lewis’s copier goes down? When the commode gets backed up?

  4. Posted by guest | March 5, 2009 at 2:10 PM

    That is fantastic news. Someone just slayed the men’s room at my office…..well deserving of a front page article in the WSJ using this as a base…

  5. Posted by Bess Levin | March 5, 2009 at 2:18 PM

    It’s like you can read my mind, @3.

  6. Posted by guest | March 5, 2009 at 2:57 PM

    I’ve never wanted you as bad as I do right now Bess. All this talk of backed-up shitters has really got my motor going

  7. Posted by guest | March 5, 2009 at 3:28 PM

    @2 – State Street actually has a really good agency brokerage service for institutional investors. You would know that if you had ever dealt with brokers, institutional investors, fund managers, or any level of finance higher than Yahoo.

  8. Posted by guest | March 5, 2009 at 3:34 PM

    @7 – brilliantly said

  9. Posted by trojan | March 5, 2009 at 3:35 PM

    @7
    how are you posting if the power is out?

  10. Posted by guest | March 5, 2009 at 4:00 PM

    Its not exactly a secret that SSB is a huge manager of index funds. Where do you people think those trades are executed?

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