CLIX News and Press, ProShares Long Online/Short Stores From 01/20/21

Last week, the 10-year Treasury bond yield continued to rise, as last Tuesday's bond auction had a lackluster bid-to-cover ratio of 2.47. This means that the Fed is going to have to do more quantitative easing or the federal government is going to have to curtail its spending. The Fed...

Among strong, positive numbers, industrial production rose 1.6% in December, while the manufacturing component rose by 1.0%. Nominal retail sales declined -1.0% in December. Excluding the food services sector, which has been especially hard hit by the pandemic and lockdowns, sales wer...

COVID-19 didn't cause physical retail's steep decline - it just accelerated it. Retail survivors and thrivers will invest in the apps and digital tools that eliminate friction from the shopping experience. Consumers in the U.S., U.K., and Australia consistently rate the in-store s...

The biggest retail trend in 2020 was the accelerated shift Americans made to online shopping, driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. This trend will be a big contributor to the economy in 2021 as e-commerce continues to grow as a percentage of total retail sales. As the number one holid...

The economic recovery that arises from COVID vaccination will bring relief to some retailers, but what about those whose sales grew during the pandemic? Will they enjoy permanently higher sales, or return to normal, or will they learn that their 2020 sales gains were simply borrowing ...

The continuing growth in online retail sales is the main theme of an investment in the CLIX ETF. The long/short design has helped to hedge major stock market downturns and the 2020 coronavirus recession effect on physical stores. A diversified list of volatile, online retail stock...

Of the 187 companies in our Retail/Restaurant index that have reported earnings to date, 90% have reported earnings above analyst expectations and 10% reported earnings below analyst expectations. U.S. consumers are saying that the online shopping trend looks permanent, Refinitiv disc...

Navigating the holiday season during the COVID-19 pandemic is sure to heighten anxiety levels for retailers and consumers alike in 2020. But US consumers have found a way to spend money amid the chaos and retail has been a key beneficiary of a widespread shift in spending from service...

E-commerce will be robust this holiday season, seeing a larger share of spend, plus with shopping totals rising. Online shopping ETFs provide diversified opportunity to gain exposure to the positive trend. Not a short-term movement as longer-term online shopping trends expected to...

Lockdowns triggered a huge spike in online sales of every kind, but then the question was where this would stabilise. In the USA, where lockdowns have been pretty patchy, ecommerce was ~17% of addressable retail at the beginning of the year. Amazon is having a good lockdown, but s...