The Aftermath at a Glance

FINANCIAL IMPACT

Stock market: Wall Street finds some stability a day after the Dow’s biggest one-day point drop in history. The index falls 17.30 points to 8,903.40.

Trading probe: The Chicago Board Options Exchange joins a probe into whether terrorists may have profited from trades in airline, insurance and brokerage stocks before the attacks.

GLOBAL IMPACT

Tragedy’s scope: The attacks on the World Trade Center were targeted at the U.S., but citizens of 60 nations may have died.

Mideast progress: As the world turns to a wider battle, Israel and the Palestinians take a key step toward defusing their yearlong bloody conflict.

SOCIAL IMPACT

Security targeted: U.S. senators are drafting a multibillion-dollar plan to beef up security aboard airliners and at the nation’s airports.

Network move: ABC News will no longer use the film footage of two hijacked planes crashing into the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

THE TOLL

World Trade Center: 218 confirmed dead, including those on the hijacked planes, and 5,422 missing.

Pentagon: 189 dead, including those aboard the hijacked plane.

In Pennsylvania: 44 dead on the hijacked plane.