Sandy Shows Wall Street No Less Vulnerable

Weather-related shutdown suggests markets infrastructure still too concentrated in New York area.

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The longest weather-related shutdown of U.S. stock trading since 1888 ended Oct. 31 without incident, while underscoring how vulnerable the world’s biggest financial market remains to disasters.

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