Hurricane Sandy shuts stock trading for 2 days  'It's a
monumental event'  Sand bags protect the front of the New York
Stock Exchange, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
NEW YORK (AP) — Remember when President Grover Cleveland ran for
a second term or when Jack the Ripper spread terror in London or
when you first read that Kaiser Wilhelm II had become German
emperor?  Yes, it's been that long.  Photos: Hurricane Sandy  On
Monday, shortly after midday, the New York Stock Exchange
announced it would close stock trading for a second day Tuesday
due to a once-in-a-century storm. Once in a 124-year storm is
more apt. The last time trading was halted for two consecutive
days due to weather was in 1888.  This time, instead of snow
drifts 40-feet high, surging water threatens to crest between 6
and 11 feet. And instead of the Blizzard of 1888, it is the more
benign sounding, but equally disruptive, Hurricane Sandy.  "It's
a monumental event, and we take it very seriously," said Larry
Liebowitz, chief ope