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2001
year mood -0.14 · -0.30 to +0.00 across 12 mo
Monthly mood
bearish −1 +1 bullish
-0.5 -0.25 0 +0.25 +0.5 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct -0.30 Nov Dec
month values ▾
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
+0.00-0.05-0.15-0.10-0.05-0.10-0.10-0.15-0.21-0.30-0.25-0.19

Enron implosion begins

How this mood is scored ▾
Each day the model reads that day's news for the sector and asks, as someone who owns assets or makes their living in it: how am I feeling this month, and why? The month's mood is that running answer, tied to the specific events driving it (the story shown above). It leans on trusted, higher-impact reporting, and on the prior month when a month is quiet, so one loud headline can't swing it. The read updates daily through the month; once a month ends, its mood is locked. This year is read live from the news the pipeline actually collected (hover a bar for its story count). · last computed Jul 11, 2026
Top finance stories of 2001
Sep
Wall Street reopens after 9/11 with a record 684-point Dow drop thedailyrecord.com →

The New York Stock Exchange reopened on September 17, 2001 after a four-day shutdown, its longest closure since 1933, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 684.81 points, about 7.1%, its largest one-day point loss ever at the time, closing below 9,000. Over the reopening week the Dow lost roughly 14% and about $1.4 trillion in market value evaporated. The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark rate by half a point that morning to steady the financial system.

Dec
Enron collapses into the largest US bankruptcy amid an accounting-fraud scandal history.com →

On December 2, 2001 Enron, a Houston energy-trading firm ranked seventh on the Fortune 500, filed for Chapter 11 with about $63.4 billion in assets, then the largest corporate bankruptcy in US history. The collapse followed disclosures that it had concealed billions in debt and inflated profits through off-balance-sheet partnerships, and its shares fell from over $90 in 2000 to under $1, erasing roughly $60 billion in market value and about $2 billion in employee pensions. The scandal destroyed auditor Arthur Andersen and spurred the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act.