{"id":7995,"date":"2012-02-15T14:06:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T12:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/s-africa-retail-sales-growth-at-8-7-pct-in-dec\/"},"modified":"2012-02-15T14:06:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T12:06:14","slug":"s-africa-retail-sales-growth-at-8-7-pct-in-dec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-retail-sales-growth-at-8-7-pct-in-dec\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa retail sales growth at 8.7 pct in Dec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Feb 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Growth in South<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s retail sales jumped to 8.7 percent year-on-year at<br \/>\nconstant prices in December from an upwardly revised 7.2 percent<br \/>\nin November, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On a month-on-month basis sales grew by 1.3 percent in<br \/>\nDecember and were up 7.9 percent in the last quarter of 2011<br \/>\ncompared with the same period a year ago, also at constant<br \/>\nprices.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Economists polled by Reuters this week expected year-on-year<br \/>\ngrowth to slow to 6.5 percent in December.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Xola Potelwa)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Feb 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Growth in South Africa&#8217;s retail sales jumped to 8.7 percent year-on-year at constant prices in December from an upwardly revised 7.2 percent in November, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday. On a month-on-month basis sales grew by 1.3 percent in December and were up 7.9 percent in the last quarter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-7995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}