Irene Jacob

PRESIDENT OBAMA, FROM THE ROSE GARDEN, CALLED HURRICANE IRENE THE  "CRISIS OF THE MOMENT". ****************************************** NYSE Opens for Business After Irene By  STEVE EDER Hurricane Irene couldn't keep New York's financial district down. Wall Street's best-known market was not only running, but trading up on Monday morning. Some traders who normally take trains to work in lower Manhattan drove instead on Monday to be sure they got to their posts on the floor of the New York Stock...Read Full Story

Hurricane Irene zeroed in on land Saturday, losing some power but still whipping up trouble even before a catastrophic run up the Eastern Seaboard. More than 2 million people were told to move to safer places, and New York City ordered the nation’s biggest subway system shut down for the first time because of a natural disaster. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the enormous storm’s top sustained winds slipped to 90 mph early Saturday from 100 mph overnight but warned Irene would...Read Full Story

Marines palm out bags of ice on Sunday to residents of Goose Creek Island , N.C., who were stranded by Hurricane Irene. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The Federal Disaster Relief Fund, a pot of income used to assistance communities and people strike by disasters, is scarcely depleted. That’s bad news for victims of both Hurricane Irene and other disasters like a tornadoes that strike progressing this year. Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate pronounced Monday that a...Read Full Story

Hurricane Irene done landfall in North Carolina, destroying this lodge in Nags Head, that was built in 1903. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Hurricane Irene left 20 people dead, 3 million business but energy and potentially billions of dollars in repairs from flooding and wind. But a mercantile repairs could have been a lot worse, experts said. “It was most reduction punch than bark,” pronounced Matt Carletti, specialty word researcher during JMP Securities. “Rounding up, it’s a $10 billion event...Read Full Story

Globe and Mail US Open Returns Hurricane Irene's Powerful Serve The Big Lead The 2011 US Open, which took a severe hit on Aug. 27 when it had to cancel its popular Arthur Ashe Kids' Day, plans not to take another such blow. According to the US Tennis Assn., the final tennis grand slam of event of the year will begin as planned ... U.S. Open 2011 Schedule For Monday SB Nation Fan's guide to the US Open New York Post US Open Matches Get Underway In Queens NY1 Patch.com  - Washington Post  - USA...Read Full Story