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Previously on "Black Friday"

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  • Lockhouse
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    Ftse

    Take a look - "No winners"!

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  • wobbegong
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    Originally posted by Betty View Post
    I object to the term "Black Friday"
    Why?

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  • Bob Dalek
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    Originally posted by Betty View Post
    I object to the term "Black Friday"
    I object to the term "Friday"... and "Black".

    - Robinson Crusoe's Ethnically Disadvantaged and Exploited, Yet His Equal In The Eyes Of The Law, Companion.

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  • AlfredJPruffock
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    Originally posted by ASB View Post
    Mine weren't. And still aren't. Seems little point now. They're losing money rather quicker than I can make it. Have you got a spare cardboard box I can have?

    Do the Wall St shuffle
    watch the greenbacks tumble
    Feel the sterling crumble

    You Buy and Sell
    You wheel and deal
    But your living on instinct

    Oh - Mr Brown- did your money make you better ?
    Are you waiting for the hour - when you can screw us
    Cos youre Big Enough ??/


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  • ASB
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    Originally posted by moorfield View Post
    It's squeaky bum time isn't it ?

    On the plus side all my pension pots were consolidated into a cash sipp about a month ago.
    Mine weren't. And still aren't. Seems little point now. They're losing money rather quicker than I can make it. Have you got a spare cardboard box I can have?

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  • SantaClaus
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    Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View Post
    I predict that the NYSE, NASDAQ and the CME will not open on Monday.


    Edit: I can get myself into trouble for saying that. It's only a joke but there is a holiday, but it doesn't shut everything.
    You could well be right HairyArse.

    I'm predicting 3800 on FTSE by the end of the day and possibly 3660.

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  • Bob Dalek
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    I'm heading up to Manchester for a weekend of drunken debauchery!

    (Actually, a Lodge rehearsal and a pleasant time with girly...)
    Canal Street bar

    pale and lanky boy

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by ace00 View Post
    I'm heading for the bunker right now.
    .


    The End[/I]
    Dont forget your sand wedge

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  • moorfield
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    It's squeaky bum time isn't it ?

    On the plus side all my pension pots were consolidated into a cash sipp about a month ago.

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  • HairyArsedBloke
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    Originally posted by ace00 View Post
    I think my analysis has been quite good so far. But let me throw out some predictions to be judged on:

    By next Friday:

    FTSE 3500
    S&P 650
    DJIA 7500
    Gold $1250 /oz
    Markets closed by governments.

    I would also say that I called DJIA 9999 in March this year (not here though..). Oh, and UK house prices -50% from summer 2007.
    I predict that the NYSE, NASDAQ and the CME will not open on Monday.


    Edit: I can get myself into trouble for saying that. It's only a joke but there is a holiday, but it doesn't shut everything.
    Last edited by HairyArsedBloke; 10 October 2008, 08:35.

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  • DiscoStu
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    Originally posted by ace00 View Post
    I think my analysis has been quite good so far. But let me throw out some predictions to be judged on:

    By next Friday:

    FTSE 3500
    S&P 650
    DJIA 7500
    Gold $1250 /oz
    Markets closed by governments.

    I would also say that I called DJIA 9999 in March this year (not here though..). Oh, and UK house prices -50% from summer 2007.
    Sorry ace00, I'm not having a go at you - Betty is one of AtW's sockpuppets and I don't like to miss the opportunity to have a dig at him

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  • ace00
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    Originally posted by DiscoStu View Post
    I object to crappy economic analysis.
    I think my analysis has been quite good so far. But let me throw out some predictions to be judged on:

    By next Friday:

    FTSE 3500
    S&P 650
    DJIA 7500
    Gold $1250 /oz
    Markets closed by governments.

    I would also say that I called DJIA 9999 in March this year (not here though..). Oh, and UK house prices -50% from summer 2007.

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  • DiscoStu
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    Originally posted by Betty View Post
    I object to the term "Black Friday"
    I object to crappy economic analysis.

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  • ace00
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    Originally posted by dang65 View Post
    ........
    Why can't the world's governments simply suspend trading on the markets for a couple of weeks? Just let everyone sit down and have a cup of tea and think about things for a bit, instead of steaming in each day and wiping billions off the value of pretty much everything for no genuine reason. ?
    I suspect this is what will happen, especially considering that the US government should now be on holiday due to the upcoming election.

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  • dang65
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    I've heard say that they can't suspend it because selling stocks is the only way a lot of companies can get funds at the moment, what with no one lending just now. But that would be a small price to pay.

    Maybe Russia didn't work because everyone else was still trading? I dunno.

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