Cantor Fitzgerald to Offer Counseling, Crisis-intervention Services.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2001 All Members of the Cantor Fitzgerald L.P., eSpeed Inc. and TradeSpark L.L.P. Families Encouraged to Attend Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. today said it is offering counseling and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services throughout the rest of the week for the employees, families and friends of Cantor Fitzgerald, eSpeed and TradeSpark. Cantor Fitzgerald encourages all extended family and friends to gather at the Pierre Hotel at 2 East 61st in Manhattan for counseling and crisis intervention crisis intervention Psychiatry The counseling of a person suffering from a stressful life event–eg, AIDS, cancer, death, divorce, by providing mental and moral support. See Hotline. and to share feelings in a safe environment. The facility will be opened today, Wednesday from 4 PM to 9 PM, and from 9 AM to 9 PM on Thursday, September 13 and Friday, September 14. Priests, rabbis and grief counselors will be on hand to offer support. "We are fully committed to providing our employees and their loved ones with the tools to cope with this unprecedented tragedy," said Howard Lutnick, Chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald and eSpeed. "We all feeling the devastation of this incredible loss and will join together to cope at this terrible time." Those people who are unable to attend the counseling sessions at the Pierre Hotel are encouraged to call and speak with trained counselors and crisis intervention professionals. Friends who wish to inquire about employees should call 866/326-3188. For updated information please visit www.cantorusa.com. About Cantor Fitzgerald L.P. Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. is a financial services firm with operating units that are involved in a variety of market-based business initiatives. From its position as a leading financial intermediary Financial Intermediary An institution that acts as the middleman between investors and firms raising funds. Often referred to as financial institutions. Notes: This can include chartered banks, insurance companies, investment dealers, mutual funds, and pension funds. in both the equity and fixed income markets, Cantor has expanded the scope of its business to include portfolio trading, investment banking, financial spread betting, market advisory, energy brokerage, CO2 emissions trading and electronic trading technology. Cantor brings its experience and expertise in the financial markets and its legacy of innovation in technology to benefit institutional investors and traders around the world. Whether creating new products and services or enabling its clients to trade more efficiently and effectively through cutting edge technological solutions, Cantor is reinventing markets every day. For more information about Cantor Fitzgerald visit www.cantor.com. About eSpeed, Inc. eSpeed, Inc. operates multiple buyer/multiple seller real-time electronic marketplaces. eSpeed's suite of marketplace tools provides end-to-end transaction solutions for the purchase and sale of financial and non-financial products via the Internet or over eSpeed's global private network. eSpeed currently provides the marketplace infrastructure for 48 financial and non-financial instruments, including most of the world's fixed income marketplaces. eSpeed transacts over $200 billion of financial instruments daily and is headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Additional information on eSpeed is available via the Internet at http://www.espeed.com. About TradeSpark TradeSpark, LP. is a unique partnership formed by: eSpeed, Inc. (Nasdaq:ESPD ESPD Enfants En Situation Particulièrement Difficile (French) ESPD Engine Shutdown Protective Device ), a leading interactive electronic marketplace engine for business-to-business (B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ) e-commerce, Cantor Fitzgerald, one of the world's leading voice brokerages and five of the largest US energy producers/distributors. The TradeSpark energy partners are: Coral Energy, Dominion (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :D), Koch Energy Trading, Inc., TXU TXU Texas Utilities (Electric and Gas Company) TXU Transmitter Unit Energy Trading, a subsidiary of TXU (NYSE:TXU), and Williams Energy Marketing and Trading Company, a subsidiary of Williams (NYSE:WMB WMB Waste Management Board WMB Write Me Back WMB Wheaton Municipal Band (Wheaton, IL) WMB Waukegan Municipal Band (Waukegan, IL) WMB Websphere Message Broker . Active TradeSpark marketplace participants include other major energy companies and (mention trading houses?) including: Dynegy Inc. (NYSE:DYN) and Entergy (NYSE:ETR ETR Estimated Time of Return/Repair ETR Early to Rise (health e-zine) ETR Effective Tax Rate Etr Etruscan (linguistics) ETR Eastern Test Range ETR Express Toll Route ). |
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