Hurricane Sandy

Power outages at hundreds of gas stations and a distribution bottleneck due to flooding damage and power loss has caused a gasoline shortage in the New York metropolitan area that may not be cleared up for at least a week, according to industry experts.

Exactly how bad does the gasoline shortage in New York and New Jersey have to get before the governments of these two states suspend their insane price-cap policies?

Callers touting hurricane-related investments may be scam artists capitalizing on the storm.

In the wake of Sandy’s aftermath, startups based on New York City have had to relocate to keep operations running. With so many Silicon Alley offices located in Lower Manhattan, where power has been out for days, finding a remote hideout with wifi has been critical.

Gasoline prices are likely to keep falling, after Super Storm Sandy shut down highways and air travel across the East Coast.

As our thoughts remain with all those who have been horribly affected by the devastation that hit the U.S. Eastern seaboard and its aftermath, we are being asked about the implications of Hurricane Sandy for markets

When trading starts back up in New York, traders should have had time to assess how severe the damage was from Hurricane Sandy.

Demand for East Coast hotel rooms is spiking, and some travelers charge price gouging in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

The offices of the Federal Reserve banks of New York and Philadelphia are nearly empty. But the staffs of the banks, as well as the Board of the Federal Reserve in New York, are working from home to keep the U.S. financial system flowing smoothly.

It happened after hurricane Katrina, and the expectation is that Sandy will prove no different. “Demand for self-storage rises considerably as homeowners, contractors, and local suppliers set about preparing for reconstruction,” note analysts David Toti and Gaurav Mehta of Cantor Fitzgerald.

Traders at hedge funds frustrated by the lack of access to equities markets in the United States have been combing through the world for proxies, assets they might be able to trade that are so correlated with certain U.S. equity classes that traders can synthetically reproduce the trades they can't make in U.S. markets. These are few and far between, of course.

As power failures and flooding overwhelmed lower Manhattan and the Red Hook section of Brooklyn early Tuesday, small businesses scrambled to recover amid the aftermath of Sandy.

With the lights out smart phones are the only source of information for people left in the dark by Hurricane Sandy, which puts the spotlight on Twitter and Facebook.