CLIX News and Press, ProShares Long Online/Short Stores From 10/13/20

Among the largest names in retail, as represented by the MVIS U.S. Listed Retail 25 Index, the differences between winners and losers this year is dramatic. The difference separating many of the names into winners and losers is their ability to leverage not only ecommerce, but all cha...

Retail sales climbed back to record levels in June and continued to grow in July and August - despite painful levels of unemployment and income loss. But the good times will not last much longer: The massive government income support programs that funded consumer spending are ending, ...

Ecommerce allowed us to continue buying things we probably wouldn't have been able to buy otherwise. Consumer adoption of ecommerce is probably going to be sticky as concerns about the virus fade. Retailers winning during the pandemic were in the right categories and had a strong ...

The CLIX ETF is a long-short fund offering investors the potential to profit from the growth of online companies and the decline of brick-and-mortar retailers. The fund has been a big winner in 2020 led by e-commerce stocks with strong growth trends benefiting during the pandemic. ...

Two days ago we saw that gains in industrial production had decelerated sharply in August. This morning we saw the same thing with real retail sales, one of my favorite indicators. Nominal retail sales were up +0.6% in August. Meanwhile, July's reading was revised downward by -0.3%. Since in...

By Robert Hughes Retail sales and food-services spending posted another gain in August, rising 0.6 percent from the prior month. However, the gain was below the 1.0 percent consensus expectation and follows a downwardly revised 0.9 percent gain in July (from an initial estimate of a 1.2 pe...

By John Delano, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager Digital payment providers are catering to the need for electronic and touchless transactions. Over the past few months, clients have asked me how the current environment has transformed the direction of structural change in the global eco...

Investors interested in gaining access to the stock and bond markets currently enjoy a wide variety of possibilities as the universe of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has grown. For the most part, this growth in low-cost, easy-to-access ETFs has been a boon for investors. However, while gaining ...

Century 21, the famous New York discount store chain, has become the latest retail casualty of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it would file for bankruptcy and close all 13 of its locations after failing to receive money from its insurers. More news on: Consumer Discretionary Select Sec...

Amazon (AMZN) turns 25 next year - a striking reminder that the e-commerce industry is no longer in its infancy. Yet, despite decades of growth, we believe e-commerce still has ample opportunities to expand, and 2020 is giving us a glimpse of that growth potential. E-commerce has become the de...