The banks aren't closed indefinitely. Somehow the fact the AP got the facts wrong doesn't surprise me. They are closed for eight days, and bank customers can only get $66 (as of 11 a.m. today, €58.74 and falling -- before our banks opened, it was €75) out of the ATM per day.
Also, markets world wide are uniformly down, European markets much more drastically than the Dow, but at this posting it is down -229.38 and falling. The DAX closed at -409.24,
This is not good, folks.