China's retail sales up 10.1 pct in November

STORY: China's retail sales up 10.1 pct in November SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 15, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 15, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:46 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LIU AIHUA, Spokesperson of National Bureau of Statistics 2. File footages of Chinese economy STORYLINE: China's retail sales of consumer goods, a major indicator of the country's consumption strength, registered a double-digit year-on-year growth in November, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LIU AIHUA, Spokesperson of National Bureau of Statistics "In November, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 4,250.5 billion yuan (about 597.8 billion U.S. dollars), up by 10.1 percent year on year, 2.5 percentage points higher than that of the previous month. Total retail sales of consumer goods topped 42.79 trillion yuan (about 6.03 trillion U.S. dollars) in the January-November period, up 7.2 percent from one year earlier." Retail sales in the country's urban regi

Tokyo stocks rise on final day, but suffer record loss

Tokyo stocks rise on final day, but suffer record loss

TOKYO, Japan - Popular Japanese badminton pair Kumiko Ogura (L) and Reiko Shiota ring the bell during the annual closing ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on Dec. 30. Tokyo stocks rose in the year's final, half-day session, but the key Nikkei index ended 2008 with its steepest one-year percentage drop of 42.1 percent, reflecting investor sentiment battered by a string of macroeconomic and corporate woes.

Tokyo stocks rise on final day, but suffer record loss

Tokyo stocks rise on final day, but suffer record loss

TOKYO, Japan - Popular Japanese badminton pair Kumiko Ogura (L) and Reiko Shiota ring the bell during the annual closing ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on Dec. 30. Tokyo stocks rose in the year's final, half-day session, but the key Nikkei index ended 2008 with its steepest one-year percentage drop of 42.1 percent, reflecting investor sentiment battered by a string of macroeconomic and corporate woes. (Kyodo)