As the trading day came to an end on August 24, with US stocks down nearly 600 points, there was perhaps no more welcome sight than the executives at Cash America International, a publicly-traded pawnshop company scheduled to ring the New York Stock Exchange’s closing bell.
"I think a lot of people were happy to see the exchange close that day," said Yolanda Walker, the Fort Worth, Texas-based company's vice president of public relations.
