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Oct 29,2012   7:217am

 Sandbags have been placed outside the entrance of the New York Stock Exchange, a visual reminder of the threat from Hurricane Sandy. For the first time since 1985, a major storm has shut down NYSE and Futures trading in New York. A statement says floor and electronic trading have been closed today and a decision about Tuesday will be made later. “We support the consensus of the markets and the regulatory community that the dangerous conditions developing as a result of Hurricane Sandy will make it extremely difficult to ensure the safety of our people and communities, and safety must be our first priority,” says NYSE Euronext, the company that runs the exchange. American Express, JP Morgan Chase, and Citigroup are among many financial companies that decided to close operations in Lower Manhattan. Many of the businesses are in the storm-evacuation zone. Insurance companies, utilities and the airlines are scrambling to deal with Sandy. The storm is expected to cause billions of dollars of losses for businesses and consumers. Sandy could prove far more expensive than Hurricane Irene in 2011. The global insurance industry is better equipped to take a hit than last year, when tornadoes and earthquakes caused major losses. Thousands of flights have been canceled. Because Sandy is such a large and slow-moving storm, it might take days for the airline industry to restore normal service in much of the East. Pfizer and Entergy are among big companies postponing the release of their third-quarter earnings reports because of the hurricane.

Heavenletter #4357 The Great Yearning, October 29, 2012 
 

God said: 

Blue is the color of the sky and of the seas, and yet the word blue in the world has come to mean sad. It may be that blue has come to mean sad because you know that beyond the sky and beyond the seas lies a Greatness that you faintly remember. You know there is something, and, yet, you know not what. There is something alluring beyond. You can’t quite reach it, and so blue has come to mean sad.

That is sad, isn’t it, to be holding your hand out to reach and not quite being able to reach that which is not really out of reach. What is beyond the blue sky and the blue seas lies within your heart. It lies within your soul. It lies within you.