Talad Rot Fai is located near Chatuchak Weekend Market, on Kamphaeng Phet 2 Rd.
Spanning an incredible 35 acres of shopping, most stalls tucked into tiny narrow sois (lanes) overflowing with produce, the weekend market attracts some 200, 000 shoppers, browsers and buskers each Saturday and Sunday to its roughly 8, 000 stalls.
Bangkok jeweler Acharavadee Wongsakon, for instance, on June 30 led a procession of several hundred protesters through the city's famous Chatuchak weekend market and the Khao San Road backpacker district to persuade Thais and foreign tourists to show more respect.
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Anyone who has visited a weekend flea market has noticed the old coin and currency collector displays filled with past experiments in national fiat money.
The final 20-odd percent was a contested block from the market, and that was done over one weekend before the stock market opened Monday morning.
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The new smartphone already disappointed investors during its initial weekend on the market, at which time the company sold five million units.
With the resounding LDP Japanese electoral victory at the weekend, the market expects a strong influence on BoJ monetary policy decisions going forward.
And back in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Flea, a year-round, weekend-only market presenting a curated mix of indie designers, regional food producers and vintage collectors, has moved indoors for winter, sprawling over three floors of a former bank in Fort Greene.
There were no major geopolitical news events during the weekend to roil the market place.
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There was some better economic data coming out of China over the weekend that gave commodity market bulls some fresh, positive fodder.
After a long U.S. holiday weekend it was a subdued market place on Tuesday.
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Larry Ribstein, a professor of business law at the University of Illinois, posted a list of Alito's business-related decisions on his blog this weekend when an online futures market began indicating Alito might be a front-runner for O'Connor's seat.
The market place will head into the weekend with keener uncertainty, which is a bullish underlying factor for the safe-haven gold market.
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The weekend passed in a frenzy of market research, note-taking and a thousand post-it notes.
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Holland America is introducing the first five-day trip to Alaska in September, opening the market to the long weekend crowd.
The hedge fund crowd is licking its wounds heading into the Labor Day weekend after getting clobbered by the market.
When the market opened after the weekend, investors briefly punished Caterpillar and then moved on, as seen in a stock chart.
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Many workers are wary of the new contract, which is up for ratification beginning this weekend, but others recognize the market has changed.
The market place is awaiting the weekend EU leaders summit in Brussels.
You can also join in the lively festival and market that is held every weekend (except during the summer) in Mataderos, the western Buenos Aires suburb named for the cattle slaughterhouses established there in 1899.
While this support level may hold, as market participation thins heading into the weekend we could yet see some volatile moves.
The day before a long weekend is traditionally a quiet one, as many market professionals skip out early.
No matter what, this market can expect a rather apprehensive long weekend.
Washington gave some lukewarm support to its beleaguered mortgage agencies over the weekend, leading to tepid gains in the stock market on Monday.
However, do not look for the gold sellers to be out in force Friday, as the market place is heading into an uncertain weekend regarding the Cyprus financial crisis.
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The gold market also sees bullish tailwinds from the weekend news that Iran has halted oil shipments to some European countries, to pre-empt an EU ban on Iranian oil imports.
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Meantime, the leaders in the European Union over the weekend scrambled and made pronouncements to try to calm the market place regarding its own sovereign debt crisis.
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As I noted in my column last weekend, the Fed seemed to panic after the stock market plunged in August in its worst August in years, as economic reports continued to worsen.
The Marketplace Europe debate, hosted by Richard Quest and featuring Lufthansa boss Christoph Franz, chief executive of Deutsche Post DHL Frank Appel and Financial Times International Affairs Editor Quentin Peel this weekend thrashed out the topic: Can a European single market be globally competitive?
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