KXI News and Press, iShares Global Consumer Staples From 12/23/21

Due to inflation, several retailers are already dealing with higher cost of goods and services and dealing with the supply chain crisis. Consumers’ short-term inflation expectations rose again, with the median cost of living increase for next year pushing up from 5.7% to 6.0%. ...

As 2021 concludes, market participants can look towards the consumer staples and consumer discretionary sectors along with related ETFs to gauge future market momentum. With 2022 just around the corner, investors will notice that the consumer staples segment of the market leads all sectors th...

Retail sales have posted gains in four consecutive months but November is the slowest pace of the four. Most categories were up in November though breadth was weaker than in October. Retail inventories have improved for several industries in recent months. For further detail...

More than two-thirds of the US population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, most students have resumed in-person learning, and the economy, as a whole, is booming. This holiday season is likely to bring more of the same as shoppers remain uncertain about the path of the pandemic a...

Investment grade credit fundamentals remain healthy, but supply chain issues are contributing to the overarching inflationary environment, with different impacts across sectors. Across sectors, companies are responding to cost increases by raising, or attempting to raise, prices to co...

Chen: TSA scanned the highest numbers of post-pandemic air travelers (adj. for seasonality) during the Thanksgiving week. Black Friday + Cyber Monday sales showed some sign of falling short of high expectation. Chen: Still reason to be constructive on equity markets. For fur...

The latest IHS Markit US Sector PMI revealed that six of the seven broad sectors tracked by the surveys reported higher output in November. Despite some of the supply chain problems having eased in November, the extent to which production growth had been constrained is consistent with...

Historically, viruses tend to mutate and become less deadly over time. Consumers are buying again, so I still expect this holiday shopping season to set all-time records. The good news was that the October and September payroll reports were revised up to 546,000 and 379,000. ...

As a discrete data point, and when compared to 2020, more consumers did shop in stores than online. How consumers experience the physical store now will determine how they use it going forward – especially as the online shopping experience continues to improve. According to...

New Covid-19 variant from South Africa caused an emergency meeting of WHO that spooked the financial markets on “Black Friday,” putting a damper on the biggest retail sales day of the calendar year. The good news is that even though the ETF spread widened for DVY on Frid...