Stronger December Puts Overall Sales Slightly Higher

摘要

Perhaps reflecting the influence of lower petroleum producing prices, sales were up for five of the eight major product groupings in December 2008 compared to the previous year, which percentage-wise put the annual volume at virtually the same level as in 2007, Statistics Canada reports.rnMonthly overall volume increased to just over 8.57 million cubic metres, a 0.3% improvement compared to the 8.54 million cubic metres in December 2007, according to StatsCan data.