WSJ reporter Ann Zimmerman – a retail-sector veteran – offers tips and tricks to finding bargains on Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year.
11/25/2009
While yesterday's US stock market close was poor, Asia and Europe didn't follow today as debt in Greece, Spain, Portugal, etc... rallied, their CDS narrowed and stocks bounced. The Greek finance minister said January tax revenues came in above expectations and that spending was below target for the month and said "that means the deficit reduction for January is well within what we have promised." The euro is rising in turn. Also helping is the story that Trichet is headed to the European Union leaders summit a day early in order to address Greece's problems even as the Greek finance...
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November 27th, 2009 at 3:40 am
Shopping is our national past time…
Eight dollar zhu zhu pets. Black Friday is a marathon not a sprint. Plan and coordinate for your shopping. Wear comfortable shoes.
Silly, stupid and ultimately sad.
Watching a great nation disintegrate in slow motion from the inside out is surreal. If this were a sketch on Saturday Night Live it would be mildly funny, however given this last year of financial crisis a bit in bad taste. But this isn’t a SNL sketch.
When will they wake up? Soon I hope for the own sake.
It is time for a new National Past Time. Please.