More on our web site bbc. C0. Uk news and the news app. Now on bbc news live to singapore for Asia Business report. Black friday all bleak friday . Whats in store from the Global Shopping bonanza for retailers and the environment . Indias economic slowdown. Officialfigures the environment . Indias economic slowdown. Official figures are today are expected to confirm the weakest growth in more than six years. Welcome to Asia Business report. Its friday but its notjust any friday. It happens to be black friday. It happens to be black friday today, the start of what retailers are hyping as the cyber weekend Global Shopping spree in the worlds biggest economy the united states, spending over the next four daysis states, spending over the next four days is expected to break the 29 billion mark by the time cyber mondays over. Companies are hoping for a sales boost ahead of the next round of tariffs on imports from china which are due next month. Of course, a lot of that spending is now on li
We start with black friday. The annual shopping binge after the thanksgiving holiday is now a global phenomenon, with retailers around the world offering discounts on everything from Kitchen Appliances to tvs to clothing. But its also becoming the focus of concerns about the environmental cost of consumerism. Spending in the us, the home of black friday, is forecast to hit more than 29 billion over the next four days. Theres an added incentive this year us retailers want to do as much business as possible ahead of a new 15 import tax due to hit chinese made goods later this month. It would affect 160 billion worth of goods, including popular gifts like smartphones, toys and clothes. Dont expect the frantic scenes in the shops of black fridays past though its increasingly being done online. Thats where more than three quarters of us are looking for bargains here in the uk, according to pwc, and the trend is the same around europe and the us. But are more of us growing uncomfortable with
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Capital santiago as antigovernment protests continue hundreds of people have been injured after more than 2 weeks of protests demanding higher wages and improved health care what was going on not taught america to see in human out of that you were at the heart of the purchase time whats happening. There are a lot of tear gas a lot of mortar caught in near the main area where the protests have begun for the last more than 2 weeks now this protest was called to ask for the resignation of president Sebastian Pinera a much more a protest than the ones weve seen normally but the premise is being very very heavy handed its not allowing people to ponder a gauge and theyre basically playing cat and mouse with the Security Forces. As you can see everybody is running now in this direction. But. As i say the groups are much smaller than they have been in the last few days but the police for the once is not allowing them to gather at all and it might be because god know fridays protest a small gro
And the attempt to do this through the through the military its simply not going to be the entire solution theyre not achieving their goal of security in the region so what are the options are bad thing for improving security well i think theres an understanding that. But this is overall it is a political problem its an economic problem that there need to be more Development Opportunities there needs to be a more sat a sense that those in mali for instance in the government or and who are negotiating peace deals and trying to implement these there needs to be a sense that theres follow through on the implementation and that theres not a real that theres there is a disconnect between the northern and central relations and whats going on on in daily life in bamako which is where the capital of of mali is in the government is and so i think theres a lot of ongoing resentment between this this disconnect between those people who are living in the north and the Central Regions who are inclu