NYSE Shutdowns Due to Weather and Other Disasters

A sampling of New York Stock Exchange shutdowns

NYSE Shutdowns Due to Weather and Other Disasters — Photographs by Corbis; NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images; Marie Hansen/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images; National Archive/Newsmakers/getty images; Dan Farrell/NY Daily News/Getty Images

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By Evan Applegate

November 1, 2012 at 7:40 PM UTC

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This article is part of the November 5, 2012 issue of businessweek.

Hurricane Sandy prompted a two-day shutdown of the New York Stock Exchange. Some other closures in the exchange’s long history: