But Ed Joyce's golden week turned sour as the victim of a freak dismissal.
And this year's long Golden Week, with two weekends rather than one, provided extra temptation.
But only days after the Chinese returned from Golden Week, a national holiday, the banks were reinvigorated.
The benchmark index rose 3.6% to 14, 180 on its first day of trading after the Golden Week holiday.
Our report coincides with Japan's Golden Week national holiday, when much of the country shuts down for several days.
In China TV shipments increased 13% y-o-y in Q3 driven by holiday shopping during the Golden Week holiday in October.
Robust consumer sentiment was also seen in the surging number of tourists and travelers observed during the Golden Week holidays.
Today in Tokyo, the last trading day before the Golden Week holiday, market participants chose to take money off the table.
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In Asian trading the Japanese stock market hit a five-year high on the first trading day after the Golden Week holiday break.
Las Vegas Sands, MGM Resorts, and Wynn Resorts will see revenues hit an all-time high in October, as Golden Week volumes surged.
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So even if they splurged during Golden Week, most Japanese are still reluctant to open their purses, a problem given that consumer spending accounts for 60% of GDP.
The Nikkei Stock Average jumped 3.5% on its first trading day after the four-day Golden Week break, climbing above the 14, 000 mark for the first time since June 2008.
Some media reports had suggested that the Chinese authorities might raise interest rates for the first time in nine years as soon as the Golden Week holiday ended last week.
The Nikkei Stock Average jumped 3.6% to 14180.24 on its first trading day after the four-day Golden Week break, climbing above the 14, 000 mark for the first time since June 2008.
Golden Week is a national holiday that lasts seven days and is supposed to foster tourism, consumption, and allow workers to visit family members in more remote areas of the country.
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China is on holiday this week, celebrating Golden Week.
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"Japanese investors returned from Golden Week national holidays in buoyant mood, bidding stocks in the Nikkei 225 average to their highest since mid-2008, " said Andrew Wilkinson, chief economic strategist at Miller Tabak.
Over 580, 000 Japanese traveled abroad during the "Golden Week" holidays straddling April and May, up 10% from a year ago and the highest number ever, while a record 20 million took trips inside the country.
Though Germany's DAX hit another record high, Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average was the standout, surging 3.6 percent to 14, 180.24 on its first day of trading following the Golden Week holiday that's the first time the Nikkei has breached the 14, 000 mark since June 2008.
Against the Golden Lions last week this back row unit produced some good moments but they will have to tighten up for the Sharks.
Police are now investigating a golden cookie that turned up last week hanging on a red ribbon around the neck of a horse statue in front of the city's Leibniz University.
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With that in prospect around the world, one industry figure in Aberdeen said this week this is "a golden era for oilfield services".
Last week, Chastain won a Golden Globe for best actress in a drama for Zero Dark Thirty, the controversial Kathryn Bigelow film about the search for Osama Bin Laden.
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Amour was nominated for a Golden Globe for best foreign language film last week.
However, Deans has been working hard this week to talk up the current golden generation of Irish talent.
She swims six days a week now with members of the Golden West Swim Club, a team made up of kids less than half her age.
Add on another week if you plan on visiting the Golden Ring towns, the palaces around St Petersburg, and Novgorod, where it's best to stay at least one night.
Last week the chairman of the Queen's Golden Jubilee committee, Lord Sterling, insisted the plans for public events were on track.
The charity's latest annual report, out this week, records nearly 1, 500 individual Golden Oldies sessions delivered in the last 12 months.
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