If and when U.S. stock trading starts up again on Wednesday,
the crowd waiting to trade will be like those Black Friday masses busting down
the doors of Wal-Mart to get their hands on a $20 DVD player. Things could get
ugly, according to a HuffPo report.
Everything could go smoothly, of course. But investors
should be ready for the chance, however small, of volatile trading that could
further rattle already shaky confidence in financial markets, with longer-term
implications for the economy, and possibly the presidential election, if things
get really messy.
"The last thing we can afford in this country is for
capital markets to come online tomorrow and not have the ability to handle what
happens, after 48 hours of being closed after a natural disaster," said
Dennis Kelleher, president and CEO of Better Markets, a financial-reform
advocacy group. "It will compound all the bad trends in these
markets."
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