Numbers to be released by the National Bureau of Statistics Monday are expected to show retail sales rose 2.9% in November from a year before, the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg shows. That would match the weakest gain since August last year.Investment in fixed assets such as factories, new properties and machinery is seen contracting by 2.3% over the January-through-November period compared with a year before. That would mark a plunge unseen outside of the Covid crisis in figures goin ...