Tag: black friday

• Saturday, August 11th 2018 - 09:13 UTC

  Black Friday for Argentina: dollar climbs 3.86% and sovereign credit risk reaches 700 points

  

  Argentina’s peso closed down 3.86% on Friday and the stock market ended 1.44%, pressured by emerging markets turmoil, particularly in Turkey, and a corruption scandal that has touched some of the country’s top business leaders, traders said.

• Saturday, June 2nd 2012 - 03:01 UTC

  Black Friday for markets; US dismal jobs report and European crisis

  

  US stocks fell more than 2% on Friday, dragging the Dow Jones into negative territory for the year after a dismal US jobs report added to fears that Europe's spiralling debt crisis was dragging down the world economy.