JOHANNESBURG: In December, South Africa’s market sales were down 0.2 per cent, and rose 3.1 per cent in the three months to December compared with the same period in 2013, above market expectations and higher than a revised 2.5 per cent expansion in November.
Economists polled forecast that market sales would increase by 2.3 per cent in December compared with the same month last year.
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