CLIX News and Press, ProShares Long Online/Short Stores From 06/21/20

On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Senior Quantitative Research Analyst Abraham Robison and Senior Client Investment Analyst Chris Kyle discussed the U.S. Federal Reserve's (the Fed) recent announcement on corporate bond purchases, the latest macroeconomic data and the outlook for...

There was a good bit of excitement on Tuesday with the release of the retail sales report, which came in stronger than expectations. However, the bounce will be difficult to maintain as tapped out consumers face high unemployment and a slow recovery. As we have discussed many times previousl...

Background Information This presentation was done to derive portfolios through COVID-19 and the path towards recovery. Feel free to leave comments down below if there are any questions regarding our analyses and assumptions. Executive Summary Given the current situation with ...

I’ve been looking at this chart a lot over the past few weeks. It shows us that print ad budgets were doing just fine all the way though the first decade or more of the consumer internet. There was even a little spike upward for the Dotcom bubble. Then the financial crisis and r...

By Jharonne Martis. Retailers are getting ready to report Q1 2020 earnings. As they navigate through uncharted territory, many are withdrawing their earnings guidance. The coronavirus pandemic has also prolonged retail store closures all over the world. However, some U.S. states are reopen...

Originally published on April 14, 2020 By Robert Hughes Weekly retail same-store sales data from Johnson Redbook reflect the collapse in retail spending as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. For the week ending April 11, the Redbook same-store sales index tumbled 8.3 percent from the p...

By Jharonne Martis The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has caused many retailers to close their physical stores, causing a sudden increase of excess inventory. Nike (NKE) alone saw an inventory spike of 7% in the fiscal quarter ending February 2020. Retailers are turning to different measures ...

By Robert Hughes Retail sales and food services spending rose 0.3 percent in January following a 0.2 percent gain in December. Over the past year, total retail sales and food services were up 4.4 percent through January. Excluding the volatile energy category, retail sales and food servi...

The lull in US consumer spending on goods has reached a fifth month. The annual comparisons aren't good, yet they somewhat mask the more recent problems appearing in the figures. According to the Census Bureau, total retail sales in January rose 4.58% year-over-year (unadjusted). Not a good nu...

By Jill Mislinski The Census Bureau's Advance Retail Sales Report for January was released on Feb. 14. Headline sales came in at 0.26% month-over-month to one decimal and were at the Investing.com forecast. Core sales (ex Autos) came in at 0.29% MoM (to two decimals). Here is the introdu...