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Flooding and power outages from Hurricane Sandy have brought New York City to an unprecedented shutdown.

In the teeth of a not-so-perfect storm savaging the East Coast, the freer the flow of digital news, the better. The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have temporarily taken down their paywalls.

New York City is preparing for Hurricane Sandy by shutting down the city's public transportation. Financial markets will also be closed today.

Manchester United's IPO raised $230 million, but not much excitement. Why are investors coy about publicly traded sports teams?

It brought back memories of the flash crash a couple years ago.

Published reports today suggest NASDAQ is working on a plan to compensate brokerages that lost perhaps $100 million when software fouled up the start of trading in Facebook's IPO last month.

After technical snafus on the NASDAQ market interfered with the launch of Facebook stock, there are reports the New York Stock Exhange reached out to Facebook to pick up their business.

European officials are reportedly on the verge of blocking a deal to create the world's biggest stock exchange.

Here are today's top headlines from the Marketplace Morning Report and around the web....

Now that the German and New York stock exchanges have tied the knot, it's time to discuss which entity is going to take a new name. Germans think...