Black Friday (shopping) corner the gold market. When President Grant learned of this manipulation, he ordered the Treasury to release a large supply of gold, which halted the run and caused prices to drop by eighteen percent. Fortunes were made and lost in a single day, and the president's own brother-in-law, Abel Corbin, was ruined. The earliest known use of "Black Friday" to refer to the day after Thanksgiving occurs in the journal, "Factory Management and Maintenance", for November 1951, and again in 1952. Here it referred to the practice of workers calling in sick on the day after Thanksgiving, in order to
Black Friday (shopping) in German-speaking countries. There has been growing interest for black Friday in Poland as well. 2014 marked the introduction in Bolivia, Colombia, Denmark, Italy, Finland, France, Ireland, Lebanon, Nigeria, South Africa and Sweden. For Middle East, UAE Black Friday started as White Friday campaign back in 2014 by SOUQ then late whole market to follow as NOON and SIVVI. In 2015 Spain joined with some small retailers. The celebration became more famous year by year, until the big retailers grew. In the Netherlands Black Friday was seriously introduced in 2015. Some years before there were already a number of large