The credit crunch and consumer pessimism may spell a bleak outlook for other British retailers in 2009. MarketWatch’s Aude Lagorce reports.
12/31/2008
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. —John Kenneth Galbraith
Asian currencies continue to sell off vs the $ on the heels of the news yesterday that South Korea said they will look into hot money inflows stemming from the $ carry trade and the Bank of Indonesia said they are looking into the foreign buying of bills. This follows the news a few weeks ago that Taiwan was limiting foreign deposit holdings and Brazil was taxing foreign inflow transactions. As I mentioned yesterday, we may have reached a short term pain threshold in terms of $ weakness and foreign countries are fighting back as they certainly won't wait for...
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January 2nd, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Woolies was the Wal-Mart of its day… RIP.
January 2nd, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Agreed. I grew up in the UK, Woolworths being gone would be like Sears being gone. Hmmmm….