FDIS News and Press, Fidelity MSCI Consumer Discretionary Index From 07/19/23

2023-07-19 12:30:00 ET Summary Retailers have a problem. Prices are no longer easy to jack up. Inflation shifted to services last year, where it still rages. Retail sales rose 0.2% in June from May, after the upwardly revised 0.5% jump in May from April, and 1.5% from a year ago, ...

2023-07-18 13:10:00 ET Summary Retail sales grew in June but these are dollar values, and in volume terms, spending appears lacklustre. Meanwhile, with the manufacturing sector languishing and inflation showing encouraging signs of slowing, the widely-anticipated July Federal Rese...

2023-07-11 23:16:00 ET Summary Amazon will offer Prime Week deals primarily online and only to its Prime subscribers. Although Amazon initiated Prime Day, other retailers like Target introduced Cycle Week to take on Prime Day promotions. As an equity investment, AMZN stock pri...

2023-07-11 19:08:42 ET Summary Surprise surprise - we went from AI love to consumer love in the span of a month and a half. Despite my concerns that we are nearing a tail event for equities, the movement in consumer discretionary stocks as held by Consumer Discretionary Select Sec...

2023-06-21 03:20:00 ET Summary Both major US monthly inflation reports out last week reflected even lower rates than most pundits had expected. Following the two inflation reports and other indicators, the Fed decided to pause hiking key interest rates further, but the “dot...

2023-06-20 14:19:00 ET Summary The latest rebound in equity prices has pulled the S&P 500 and Canada’s TSX back to levels seen two years ago in June/July 2021. In the real economy, Canada’s Producer Price Index (PPI) for May contracted 6.3% year-over-year and the...

2023-06-20 08:31:26 ET Fidelity MSCI Consumer Discretionary Index ETF ( NYSEARCA: FDIS ) - $0.1460 . Payable Jun 22; for shareholders of record Jun 20; ex-div Jun 16. For further details see: Fidelity MSCI Consumer Discretionary Index ETF declares quarterly distr...

2023-06-16 10:30:00 ET Summary For the last year, conversations centered around the Fed and its aggressive interest rate hike campaign to bring down decade-high inflation. What’s at risk? A recession, which is, in fact, our current outlook. The pandemic and relate economic ...

2023-06-08 14:50:00 ET Summary To date, 202 of the 204 companies in our Retail/Restaurant Index have reported their EPS results for Q1 2023, representing 99% of the index. Luxury retailers saw healthy sales growth driven by international shoppers, while dollar stores focused on gr...

2023-06-05 14:10:00 ET Summary In the latest reading this week, the unemployment rate rose from 3.4% to 3.7%, which suggests some economic pain to come. Recent market developments reflect concerns regarding the consumer sector. A break of 4200 on the S&P is forcing investo...