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  • well talk about size and volume the world's largest shopping event a single

  • state brought to us by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba kicked off

  • today and within the first 90 seconds of it going live the company says a process

  • in astonishing 1.4 billion dollars worth of consumer orders are home.you reports

  • millions of people waited for the clock to strike midnight to start clicking

  • their way through the limited amount of items on sale and just within the first

  • hour Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said it had racked up a staggering 13

  • billion u.s. dollars in sales on its tenth annual Singles' Day event on

  • single-stage China's version of Cyber Monday and Black Friday shoppers were

  • eager to shop for items such as cosmetics clothes and furniture from

  • 200,000 different brands Alibaba says over 500 million users are

  • expected to browse shopping sites such as Teemo and to bow over the 24 hour

  • period consumers also rare goods worth some 8.16 billion dollars within 18

  • minutes beating alibaba's entire day sale in 2014 last year Alibaba posted

  • Singles' Day sales totaling thirty point eight billion dollars almost four times

  • the online sales made on Cyber Monday in the US the Chinese e-commerce giant

  • started a single say shopping event on November 11 2009 Singles' Day was started

  • in the 1990s by Chinese college students as a celebration for people without

  • romantic partners while China's economy has been slowing due to the impact of

  • the us-china trade dispute Alibaba Singles' Day trading performance has

  • drawn attention as a gauge of consumer vitality and the world's second-biggest

  • economy who you are Iran news

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