AWAY News and Press, HomeAway Inc. From 02/22/22

Oil prices have risen sharply over the past year, pushing up fuel costs for heavy-fuel consumers, and fuel prices are expected to stay high this year. Airlines are highly sensitive to fuel price increases. Aircraft consume an average of 3-3.5 litres per 100 passenger-kilometre. Wi...

The January U.S. CPI report indicated a higher pace of inflation than many observers expected. The price level of the core CPI advanced 0.6% month-over-month, largely driven by price hikes in retail goods. While we believe the CPI report increases the probability of the U.S. Federal R...

U.S. retailers have endured multiple supply chain disruptions during the pandemic – and the costs are huge. The pandemic has affected just about all retailers’ supply chains. The Refinitiv Restaurant Same Store Sales index took a big plunge into negative territory in...

Due to inflation, several retailers are already dealing with higher cost of goods and services and dealing with the supply chain crisis. Consumers’ short-term inflation expectations rose again, with the median cost of living increase for next year pushing up from 5.7% to 6.0%. ...

The reality of the continuing pandemic has slowed the economic recovery and is reflected in new patterns of spending. People didn’t stop spending during the pandemic. It still remains to be seen if there will be enough of a shift from spending on goods to services to help e...

AWAY provides exposure to a highly-concentrated, top-heavy portfolio encompassing 35 companies that operate in the Travel Tech industry included in the Prime Travel Technology Index NTR. The AWAY portfolio tilted towards the travel booking & reservations players tha...

Worries about virus impacts on balance sheets may be obscuring business resilience. Lodging and leisure issuers have provided outlooks for 3Q that have begun to ease investor concerns. wider travel and leisure spreads reflect both concerns relative to recent trends and longer-term...

Stimulus-fueled retail sales started spiking last year, culminating in a mind-blowing free-money blow-off top in April. In dollar terms, overall inventories ended July at $603 billion, unchanged since April, and down 9.3% from two years ago. Supermarkets have recovered from the em...

Short-term trends in airline bookings are not as foretelling as they have been in the past - new variants of COVID-19 have stalled the recovery in the travel industry from what the market thought would be a strong upturn, and many travelers are either delaying travel or booking last-minut...

Price pressures are most concentrated in those sectors reporting the greatest constraints. Output consequently fell in China as well as a number of other smaller Asia-Pacific economies, and growth slowed in the US and Europe. The constraints on production caused by a lack of input...