Japan August retail sales rise 2.8% year-on-year

September 29, 2024 7:55 PM EDT

FILE PHOTO: A man shops for clothes at a market in Tokyo, Japan March 3, 2023. REUTERS/Androniki Christodoulou/File Photo

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese retail sales rose 2.8% in August from a year earlier, government data showed on Monday.

That was slightly above the median market forecast for a 2.3% rise.

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(Reporting by Yoshifumi Takemoto; Editing by Chang-Ran Kim)



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