In Japan, the Nikkei Stock Average surged 3.6% to a near five-year high, following a long holiday weekend.
By Tuesday this week, when Delhi emerged from a long holiday weekend, only 1, 500 buses were on the roads.
The U.S. gains came on the back of strong advances in European markets, which reopened Tuesday after a long holiday weekend.
The broad U.S. gains came on the back of strong advances in European markets, which reopened Tuesday after a long holiday weekend.
The broad U.S. gains came on the back of strong gains in European markets, which reopened Tuesday after a long holiday weekend.
Governments and corporations have long considered the eve of a long holiday weekend the best time for dumping embarrassing or unpleasant news.
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Thus, he continued, it will be important for bulls to see gold settle higher when traders resume from a long holiday weekend on Tuesday.
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He said consumers should just think of the situation as a long holiday weekend -- they should have just a little extra food on hand.
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In Lisbon Mr Chapman picked up his German salary and a bonus for good work, went on a long holiday in Norway and then to Berlin to get his Iron Cross.
The idea is that if Memorial Day was not simply a long weekend holiday for going to the beach and grilling, more Americans might actually realize that it has a deeper and much more somber meaning.
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The warm weather and a long bank holiday has seen people flock to coastal resorts.
For three weeks (following a long summer holiday) parliamentary business is suspended while politicians go off to contemplate their partisan navels.
In recent years, the berries have come a long way, from a holiday side dish to a year-round big business.
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Mrs Dunne and her husband Christopher, who was severely injured, were on a week-long holiday in Scotland to celebrate their first wedding anniversary.
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There's always a buzz in Cleveland for the first home game, a date the locals have long treated like a national holiday.
It seems at the end of a long year, around the holiday season, a pretty awful thing to play politics about.
After a long U.S. holiday weekend it was a subdued market place on Tuesday.
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Earlier this month Preseli Pembrokeshire MP Mr Crabb also questioned a call by the Tory assembly group to make St David's Day a public holiday in Wales - a long standing Welsh Conservative policy.
Nearly fifteen years had passed since Ruma's only European adventure, a month-long EuroRail holiday she'd taken with two girlfriends after college, with money saved up from her salary as a para- legal.
After a long U.S. holiday weekend traders will again focus on quarterly corporate earnings reports.
Eating healthy on the road has long been a struggle for holiday travelers.
It showed staff living quarters in cramped holiday accommodation a long way from the Amazon warehouse, which could only be reached by an unreliable bus service.
England's players will now head off on holiday after a long season, although they will wish it was not all over with Euro 2008 kicking off in less than a week.
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The drivers went on strike on Boxing Day in a long-running dispute over bank holiday pay, disrupting services.
Some have said this is the best retail holiday season in a long time, even before the economy went south in recent years.
Lawmakers waited until the end of business on Friday for the long public holiday weekend in a "well-orchestrated" plan, according to Hart.
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In recent years, the Ferrari ace has made a habit of taking a long break over the winter in his holiday home in Norway.
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This year, for example, it stretched the holiday out with a week-long roster of parades and attractions.
But Friday's moves were slim, as a dearth of news and low trading volume gave investors little incentive to take a stand ahead of the long New Year-holiday weekend.
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