Accelerated recovery of the US economy led to growth in holiday retail sales by 4%, according to the National Retail Federation (National Retail Federation, NRF) quoted by Rapaport portal.
The NRF said that total sales in November and December rose to $ 658.3 billion, exceeding forecasts, while sales outside the physical stores and on the Internet increased by 13% to $ 122.9 billion. December sales in 2016 increased by 3.2 % compared to December 2015 without adjusting for seasonal variations.
At the same time, some retailers reported a decline in sales volume, including JC Penney, Kohl's and Macy's . Macy's previously announced the planned closure of 62 stores. Signet Jewelers also reported that holiday sales fell by 5.1%, and the estimated total sales of retailer performance jewelery sector were unchanged or declined slightly.
The NRF recognize this variation in different segments and reported a 7 percent drop in sales in supermarkets.
"Retail reflects the economy and even, perhaps, for individual companies retain some irregularities, the retail industry as a whole showed a solid result in the holiday season, retailers will work to maintain high performance and at the end of this year..", - said the President and CEO Director NRF Mettyu Shey (Matthew Shay). "These figures show a slow but steady economic recovery in the country is gaining momentum, and that consumers feel confident about the future."
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Zimbabwe's main opposition party "Movement for Democratic Change" (Movement for Democratic Change, MDC ) encouraged to impeach the country's president, Robert Mugabe, because he "can not fully and effectively monitor the situation in the country."
Mugabe last week, whose age is 92 years old, said that since 2009 diamonds worth $ 15 billion were produced in the region Marange (Marange), but only $ 2 billion arrived in Zimbabwe treasury.
"The MDC believe that Mugabe and led them to the ruling party Zanu PF is fully responsible for the uncertain situation in the Marange We talked about this before, and talking about it now: Mugabe can not be fully and effectively monitor the situation in the country ", - said representatives of the opposition..
"In order to save Zimbabwe from total and irreversible disintegration, the MDC urges parliamentarians of all political parties in the country to do their civic duty and immediately impeach President Mugabe," - said in a statement the party.
Meanwhile, calls for impeachment, probably will not lead to any result, because the ruling party Zanu PF has a majority of seats in Zimbabwe's parliament.
According to the MDC, the revelation of the President about those missing diamonds are at least surprising and alarming.
"MDC alarmed by the lack of transparency of diamond mining in Marange - say representatives of the party -.. More than obvious is the fact that from the very beginning of the diamond mining process of issuing digging license was neither transparent nor controlled not to conduct a public tender for the license, all transactions were made in secret. As a result, all these years have been extremely difficult to introduce rules of transparency and corporate responsibility in the field of diamond production in accordance with international practice. "
Recently, the Zimbabwean authorities have canceled all licenses that have been issued to various mining companies in Marange, in addition to state Marange Resources.
"No need to be an expert to understand that Zimbabwe was carried outflow of" dirty money "associated with the non-transparent and closed diamond mining operations in Chiadzwa region (Chiadzwa) Marange", - concluded the MDC.
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