Tuesday, 27 January 2015

Stranded on Wall Street in a blizzard: How type A does plan B

From the vantage point John Manley had in his office some 40 floors up, it actually looked like the snow was blowing up from the ground rather than falling from the sky as the first dose of winter storm Juno said hello to Manhattan. “I’m going to make a break for it around 3:30 today then see what happens,” Manley, the 60-year-old chief equity strategist for Wells Fargo Funds Management, said in a phone interview, contemplating his plans to get home to Westchester before the worst of a snowstorm that may be measured by the foot.
Severe weather on the US East Coast was presenting its biggest test to the resiliency of the financial industry since Hurricane Sandy in 2012 as workers booked hotel rooms, tested backup generators and dusted off business-continuity plans. 



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