Shares in a London-listed mining firm fell as much as 24% on Monday after officials in Tanzania prevented it from exporting diamonds from the east African country.
The final scheduled flight from Tallahassee International Airport left Sunday evening ahead of Hurricane Irma, which is ripping its way up the state of Florida.
Saudi Arabia is still planning to sell part of its giant oil company on the stock market next year despite changes to the kingdom's economic revival plan.
Just two weeks after Hurricane Harvey pummeled Johnson Space Center in Houston, Hurricane Irma is headed for Kennedy Space Center, which sits on an island due east of Orlando.
Florida is bracing for a possibly catastrophic hit from Hurricane Irma, and even with the fourth largest economy in the United States, the economic impact to the Sunshine State could be severe.