There was someone on Bloomberg radio now claiming that last year was the worst Christmas for sales he's seen in decades. He expects this year to be A LOT worse. He coupled that with unemployment, government spending and a few other things and said that basically...we're going in the tank.
Wish I had heard the guy in more detail.
prisoner6
re #106....that’s the way I’m reading it Po6. With today’s ‘puter speed (servers) and Internet.......I’d almost bet the motor fuel numbers are already in for Wednesday especially....the airlines already knew what had been booked on flights, off 7% from last year I believe as a whole.
You & Halgr Shorting the market, eh? Wouldn’t be the first time people come here and post vacuous statements meant to get everybody in a tizzy.
It use to happen a lot on AOL chat boards; some broker would break into the conversation with a headline about some company going belly up soon or whatever.
I see they moved up and over to FR.