Total Retail Sales of Goods and Services Reach VND5,430 In October

    In accumulation, retail sales in 10 earlier months of 2010 hit VND43,611 billion, going up by 24.5% over the same period, making up 76% of the year plan.

    Retail sales by industry in the 10 months go as follow: trade VND35.779 trillion, up 24%, occupying 82% ; services VND4,506 billion, up 23%, making up 10.3%; hotel and restaurant VND3.306trillion, up 30.5%,  representing 7.6%; and tourism gain VND19.5 billion, accounting for 0.04%, up 28.5%, which is the lowest increase.

    Price index of goods and services in Oct. 2010 compared to Oct. 2009 (the growth rate after one year) increases by 8.4%. Ten out of 11 groups of goods and services get rising, in which the groups that have a higher increase than average include food and catering services by 13; housing, electricity, water, fuel, construction materials by12%; other goods and services by 9.9%. Other groups have a 2.5% to 8% increase while the telecommunications drop by 5.9%.

L.H (N. Thuong)