FTXD News and Press, First Trust Nasdaq Retail ETF From 04/16/21

Headline, total retail sales smashed upward by 30% year-over-year (not adjusted), only some of which, again, are due to the low comparison by way of March 2020 in decline. Seasonally adjusted, retail sales were almost 10% higher in March than they had been in (upward revised) February...

Retail sales and food-services spending surged 9.8 percent in March, the second sharp jump in the last three months. Core retail sales, which exclude motor vehicle dealers and gasoline retailers, posted an 8.2 percent jump for the month, putting that measure at a new record high as we...

Bruinsma: Seeing signs of life in mobility to retail and services. Bruinsma: Restaurant spending is higher than pre-pandemic levels. COVID-19 variants threaten to slow the re-opening. For further details see: What The Latest U.S. Retail Trends Say About The Economic Reop...

Month-over-month nominal sales in March increased by 9.8%. Real Retail Sales increased by 9.2% and is at its all-time high. This indicator is a splicing of the discontinued retail sales series with the Retail and Food Services Sales and deflated by the seasonally adjusted Consumer...

For cord-cutters, the shift away from cable TV was more than just a shift away from "cable" or "satellite" - it was a break from a provider with a proprietary piece of hardware that consumers had to install and pay for to access programming. Retail's Digital Shifters are in the proces...

The economic restart has lifted commodity prices. Beyond that, we see structural trends leading to a divergence of fortunes in different commodities. The International Monetary Fund has raised its global growth forecast to 6% in 2021. U.S. stocks hit record highs and yields traded bel...

As economies emerge from pandemic restrictions, consumers are shifting spending from goods to more travel and dining out. While there are reasons for optimism, a long-term economic boom is still very much a question. Blu Putnam and Erik Norland discuss the prospects for a 2020s ec...

Demand for the latest fashion trends is always strong in the weeks leading up to Easter, a time when retailers are still selling the season's must-have Spring items at full price. The current average promotional discount for online stores is 34.2% and has dropped below the 2020 pandem...

Consumer confidence has yet to reach the higher pre-pandemic level, but it is moving up from its low after not declining as much as it did during the financial crisis. Two big ticket purchases for the consumer are a home and an automobile. As is the case with housing, auto invento...

Grocery is an enormous retail segment, with $658.1 billion in annual sales projected in 2021, the second-largest retail trade segment. In a way, Instacart has become the Amazon of Supermarkets with a twist — enabling third party sellers to share in the benefit of their platform...