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U.S. stock and options markets closed today, the first unscheduled, market-wide shutdown since September 2001, and may remain closed Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reports.

UBS AG, Switzerland’s largest bank, will cut as many as 10,000 jobs companywide as the trading business shrinks, a person with knowledge of the plan said.

Demand for liquidity has advisors saying they're planning to boost ETF use, according to a Guggenheim survey.

Stocks fell around the world and gasoline rose as Hurricane Sandy threatened U.S. East coast refineries and closed equity trading. Italian two-year notes dropped for a sixth day and the euro weakened.

Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network has added four practices.

Huntington Funds is on a roll.

By almost any measure, trust in financial services firms have fallen to new lows or close to them.

Goldman Sachs is calling it quits in Brazil, Korea and India.

Legg Mason has filed an application with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an exemption order for two equity and one fixed income offering via an ETF Trust.

Microsoft's new operating system and tablet officially launches today. ING Direct in Canada already has a tablet and desktop banking app for Windows 8; Bank of America and USAA are developing them.