Write-Offs: 10.30.12
$$$NYSE Expects Trading Floor to Be Ready to Open Wednesday [WSJ]
$$$ Goldman Sachs offering water, charging stations for residents of Battery Park City [GS]
$$$Gary Cohn expects to see you all tomorrow: "In New York, a lot of our people live in Lower Manhattan and I would consider them to be within walking distance to our building. We also have a large portion of employees in Battery City. We're confident we can get a lot of people to work. We're working on contingency plans right now on how to move people logistically are around the city...The clients that really need people in the building are more of the trading clients. The securities division personnel, the sales and trading personnel are those that will be our number one priority to get into the building. And once you bring in the sales and trading people, then you need to bring in your back office, your support, technology support, and payments and settlements." [Bloomberg TV]
$$$NYC transit crippled after storm; No one knows when New York's subway will reopen [NYP, The Atlantic]
$$$UBS to Cut 10,000 Jobs in Major Overhaul [DealBook, earlier]
$$$Behind the Inscrutable Mien, Clues to Merkel’s Methods [NYT]
$$$ Shashank Tripathi, Last Night’s Twitter Villain @ComfortablySmug [gofwd]
$$$ Chris Christie may reschedule Halloween [SFGate]
$$$That's it for us today. We'll see you back here tomorrow. Stay safe!
$$$ Pimco is looking for a portfolio compliance analyst in Newport Beach [DBCC]
$$$Supervalu May Be Just That [WSJ]
$$$ "The opportunities for private equity houses to do dividend recaps will be restricted next summer as European legislation comes into force." [PEI]
$$$The Federal Reserve’s Response to the Financial Crisis: What It Did and What It Should Have [St. Louis Fed]
$$$Haldane, Occupy, and the path to reform [FTAV]
$$$InstaSnopes: Sorting the Real Sandy Photos From the Fakes [Atlantic]