Attendees watch the start of the Singles Day online shopping festival just past midnight with a screen showing the transaction volume in Shenzhen in southern China&#039;s Guangdong province Friday, Nov. 11, 2016. Chinaâ€™s online shoppers are engaging in a rare bright spot for its cooling economy - a quirky holiday dubbed â€œSingles Dayâ€ that has grown into the worldâ€™s busiest day for e-commerce. The countryâ€™s biggest e-commerce brand, Alibaba Group, said Friday sales by the thousands of retailers on its platforms passed 62.6 billion yuan ($9 billion) in the first 10 hours of the day. (Chinatopix Via AP)