Wall Street closed

atticus · Oct 29, 2012

Quote from Bowgett:

This is not fallacy. Remember 2011 trunami in Japan. Nikkei was up 17% in three month after it.

lol it never got within 400 points of the pre-tsunami trade. Four months later it took out the low by 500 points. And you're talking about a nuke event.

achilles28 · Oct 29, 2012

Quote from Bowgett:

LOL. All terrorists have to do is to create a hurricane and send it to NYC

Ever heard of fertilizer? Anyway, I'm sure the Gov thought of all this already (we hope).

tracer619 · Oct 30, 2012

Quote from tracer619:

Nobody remembers the storm in 1992?that was much more severe than this one.can't remember which day of the week it hit.i don't recall anything shut down then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Storm_of_the_Century

correction that was March of 1993
NYC received 41 inches of snow

I was living in the suburbs we got more than that.

Todays storm was nothing compared to that one.

Maverick74 · Oct 30, 2012

I know this pic looks bad but I cannot tell how badly the NYC subway system needed a good cleaning. I mean seriously, it's filthy. This was really long overdue.

Daal · Oct 30, 2012

The bull point is that people will start crying about an expansion of QE3

Salmon · Oct 30, 2012

Saaaandy

You will make earthquake in Iran by tectonical weapons? Tectonical weapons have Russia too.....morons

Klemen · Oct 30, 2012

Total chaos... Does any one knows if non farm payroll report will be released of friday?

d08 · Oct 30, 2012

Quote from tracer619:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Storm_of_the_Century

correction that was March of 1993
NYC received 41 inches of snow

I was living in the suburbs we got more than that.

Todays storm was nothing compared to that one.

This tells a lot about the diminished spirit, "can do" people became "can't do". I understood the evacuation of some areas but closing the markets made no sense. The story was way overblown, I'm starting to wonder if the order was given from a federal level due to elections.
What's next? A plane crash at LaGuardia closes the world's biggest equity exchanges? Consider that a significant number of names traded actually don't even serve the US market, they listed due to liquidity that just isn't anywhere to be found.
And Austin, some of us might be overseas but doesn't mean we do as little as 2 contracts, not even close.

virtualmoney · Oct 30, 2012

Quote from tortoise:
yes but there have been a number of more severe weather events over the last 125 years, none of which merited this kind of response. So I find it puzzling.

Nothing puzzling, technology has advanced.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo-T_KvLNdQ

jinxu · Oct 30, 2012

I dated two girls named Sandy. One is from France. Talk about serendipity.