Friday, November 23, 2007

Black Friday

Today is Black Friday. It is the day after Thanksgiving and the day Americans starts their Christmas shopping. Typically, it is the start of the period where retail stores make money to cover the losses throughout the year. If the retail stores do not rake in much sales with good margin, then it is likely that the stores would lose money for the whole year. The sales figures on Black Friday could move the market especially during this period where there is a huge uncertainty whether consumers will minimise buying discretionary items and start a recession.

The sales figures should be coming in by Monday. However, analysts will start looking at the physical queues at retail stores on Black Friday to anticipate the actual sales figures.

As the market close early today, the market volume should be thin.

- PersianCat04 (Millionaire-in-progress)

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