The Government is holding a series of events enabling the people of Macao to celebrate with the authorities the 22nd anniversary of the establishment of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR).
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the business of both restaurants & similar establishments and retail trade in October 2021 slackened, ascribable to the import-related cases of coronavirus infection reported between late September and early October. There were 76% of the interviewed restaurants & similar establishments showing a year-on-year decline in receipts in October, a growth of 43 percentage points from September; the corresponding proportions of Chinese Restaurants (86%), Western Restaurants (77%) and Japanese & Korean Restaurants (77%) rose by 64 percentage points, 46 percentage points and 23 percentage points respectively. Meanwhile, the proportion of interviewed retailers recording a year-on-year sales decrease in October grew by 53 percentage points over the preceding month to 78%. All of the interviewed retailers of Leather Goods and Cosmetics & Sanitary Articles registered a year-on-year sales decrease. Besides, the corresponding shares of Watches, Clocks & Jewellery Retailers (86%), Department Stores (83%) and Adults’ Clothing Retailers (86%) surged by 69 percentage points, 67 percentage points and 66 percentage points from September respectively, whereas the share of Supermarkets (22%) dropped by 22 percentage points. For the Business Performance Index (BPI) that reflects the trend of year-on-year changes in business receipts, the values for restaurants & similar establishments (17.4) and retail trade (19.4) were both lower than 50, implying that the business performance of these two industries in October was less satisfactory compared to the same month last year.
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