Alibaba's Singles Day sales set record $74bn with help from livestreaming

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Alibaba Group's Jiang Fan, president of Taobao and Tmall, speaks at the e-commerce company's Singles Day global shopping festival at a media center in Hangzhou on Nov. 12. © Reuters

CK TAN and NIKKI SUN, Nikkei staff writers

HANGZHOU, China/HONG KONG -- Alibaba Group Holdings' Singles Day shopping topped $74 billion in total sales Wednesday, a huge increase from last year's record high that suggests robust consumer health in the world's second-largest economy.

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