CLIX News and Press, ProShares Long Online/Short Stores From 08/16/19

By Jill Mislinski The Census Bureau's Advance Retail Sales Report for July was released on Thursday morning. Headline sales came in at 0.7% month-over-month to one decimal and was better than the Investing.com forecast of 0.3%. Core sales (ex Autos) came in at 1.02% MoM (to two decimals). ...

Retail sales came in stronger than anticipated after the nonstore retailers category posted a 16% Y/Y jump. More news on: Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF, Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF, Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF, News on the U.S. economy, News on ETFs Read mo...

While there is a perception that online shopping has become virtually ubiquitous, in Q1 2019, penetration rates were still low, with e-commerce sales representing just 10.2% of the $1.34 trillion of total retail sales in the US. 1 Of course, online sales are closing the gap, growing much more...

By Robert Hughes Retail sales and food services rose 0.5 percent in May, following an upwardly revised 0.3 percent gain in April. The May increase was the third rise in a row and fourth in the last five months. Over the past year, they are up 3.2 percent (see chart). Retail sales excluding...

Retail Sales rose just 3.46% year-over-year (unadjusted) in May 2019. The estimate for April was revised substantially higher, now suggesting growth of 5.6%. Altogether, however, consumer spending continues to be unusually weak. How unusual. The 6-month average, a better gauge of growth condit...

By Jill Mislinski The Census Bureau's Advance Retail Sales Report for May was released June 14 morning. Headline sales came in at 0.55% month-over-month to one decimal and was worse than the Investing.com forecast of 0.7%. Core sales (ex Autos) came in at 0.50% MoM (to two decimals). Her...

ProShares, a premier provider of ETFs, today announced the inclusion of nine more of its ETFs to the TD Ameritrade ETF Market Center’s menu of commission-free funds. The new ProShares ETFs include dividend growth, fixed income and funds focusing on global trends. They also include...

By Jharonne Martis U.S. retailers are reporting Q1 2019 earning, and are already warning about tariffs in a possible U.S.-China trade war. Macy's ([[M]]) called it "a dynamic situation," right at the beginning of its earnings call. The tariffs enacted in 2018 were already baked into Macy's...

In a way, the government shutdown couldn't have come at a more opportune moment. As workers all throughout the sprawling bureaucracy were furloughed, markets had run into chaos. Even the seemingly invincible stock market was pummeled, a technical bear market emerged on Wall Street as people be...

By Robert Hughes Retail sales and food services spending fell 0.2 percent in February following a 0.7 percent gain in January. Excluding the volatile auto and energy categories, core retail sales and food services were down 0.6 percent in February after a gain of 1.7 percent in January. Ov...