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Chaos and fear in the meltdown zone  By Jon Kelly BBC News, New
York   Wall Street trader's NYSE tour  Fresh off the BBC's US
elections bus, Jon Kelly steps into the fray on Wall Street,
taking the temperature on the trading room floor.  Shouts echo
around the trading floor as the mood grows ever darker. Amid the
din, hurried-looking traders bark into telephones and glance
anxiously at their computer screens.  There is panic on the New
York Stock Exchange; fear and loathing on Wall Street.  As
politicians warn that a recession is looming, the Dow Jones
plunges. Here at the epicentre of the world's financial crisis,
chaos ensues.  Empty coffee cups litter every surface. A half-
chewed pretzel is kicked around underfoot.  The scraps of torn-
up buy-sell slips scattered on the ground look like something
from the pre-computer age. But this is very much the scene in
2008.  Primal instincts  Even in this tough, macho environment,
the traders don't conc