Up Off the Floor:NYSE/Euronext

For most of the world, the crisis that has hit financial markets has been an unmitigated disaster, devastating investors’ holdings, bankrupting many venerable institutions and trammeling the reputations of nearly everyone else. For the New York Stock Exchange, all the chaos and uncertainty, the anguish, fear and volatility — especially the vola­tility — has been a ­godsend.

Up Off the Floor