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Thomson Reuters Journalist Sasha Salama says it's unusual for severe weather to shut down U.S. financial markets.

SHOWS: NEW YORK, USA (JANUARY 27, 2015) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL)

1. THOMSON REUTERS, JOURNALIST, SASHA SALAMA, SAYING:

It's quite unusual for severe weather to shut down the financial markets in the U.S. for more than a day at a time.

Weather related issues have closed the stock markets for two days in a row on just two occasions in history.

Most recently, in October of 2012, Wall Street closed for two days in a row in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. There were a few reasons. First, many people on Wall Street use New York's mass transit system to get to work. After Hurricane Sandy, subways, buses and other mass transit were shut because of flooding - as were many roads and bridges - so people had no way of getting to work.

Also, worries about wind damage and possible power outages kept the stock exchange closed as experts tested - and re-tested -- the ability of the markets to re-open reliably.

The other time in history when the stock market closed for two days in a row was all the way back in March of 1888 when a blizzard crippled Wall Street.

Needless to say, trading back then was done just a bit differently than it is today. Now electronic trading is the norm.

That's the U.S. market wrap.