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Orange terror alert rallies security company stocks - UPDATE 2 02.08.2004 22:16  Zurück  Headlines

   NEW YORK (AFX) -- Shares of companies making security-related products
closed off their early highs Monday, as a rally prompted by fresh terror alerts
over the weekend waned late in the session.  
Citing "unusually specific" evidence of possible al-Qaida attacks against
certain key financial buildings -- including the New York Stock Exchange and the
International Monetary Fund headquarters -- Homeland Security Secretary Tom
Ridge raised the terror alert level on Sunday to orange for New York City,
northern New Jersey and Washington, D.C.
Other buildings allegedly targeted included the World Bank in Washington, as
well as the corporate headquarters for Citigroup   and Prudential Financial  ,
located in Manhattan and Newark, N.J., respectively.
Mt. Laurel, N.J.-based Mace Security International (), which makes pepper and
tear-gas sprays, car alarms and other security equipment, finished up 4.6
percent at $3.46, off its intraday high of $3.74.
Digital Recorders (), a Dallas-based maker of mass-transit surveillance
equipment, was up 3 percent at $3.97, after peaking earlier at $4.39. San Ramon,
Calif.-based Ipix (), which also makes surveillance equipment, was up 1.5
percent at $9.05, having touched a high of $9.70. Security systems firm
International Electronics (), based in Canton, Mass., gained 2.8 percent to
$2.97.
DHB Industries   gained 12 percent to $17.05. The New York-based company makes
bulletproof vests and other body armor.
San Diego-based Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals  , which is working with the U.S.