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Texas is rolling back some of the moves it made in reopening its economy due to its recent spike in COVID-19 cases. More news on: The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated, Dine Brands Global, Inc., Brinker International, Inc., Consumer stocks news, Stocks on the move, News on ETFs Read more ...

Good morning and welcome to the last full week of the 2nd quarter. New virus cases are emerging in select states that never saw much contagion during peak-quarantine, and that is starting to show up in put/call ratios. It is becoming a question of the virus reemerging versus simply continuing ...

On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Senior Quantitative Research Analyst Abraham Robison and Senior Client Investment Analyst Chris Kyle discussed the U.S. Federal Reserve's (the Fed) recent announcement on corporate bond purchases, the latest macroeconomic data and the outlook for...

There was a good bit of excitement on Tuesday with the release of the retail sales report, which came in stronger than expectations. However, the bounce will be difficult to maintain as tapped out consumers face high unemployment and a slow recovery. As we have discussed many times previousl...

Quality is a relative term, the same way that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In my All-Equities SRG portfolio, I usually look at the resilience of the business model to make a quality assessment. Recurring or predictable revenue streams, cycle-agnostic demand and industry dominance are ...

In the 19th century there was a well-known poet, Elizabeth Barrett. She had fallen in love with another aspiring poet, Robert Browning, a well-educated but lowly bank clerk. Her Victorian father had disapproved of the match. He considered Robert a gold-digger (Dad was very rich). So for four...

Q1 E-Commerce Retail Sales : +2.4 % Q/Q vs. +2.6%  in Q4. More news on: Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF, Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF, Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF, News on the U.S. economy, News on ETFs Read more ...

By James Knightley April retail sales numbers underline the devastation on Main Street and shopping malls across the country caused by Covid-19 containment measures. Re-opening is now getting underway, but ongoing social distancing means this process will be slow while the surge in unemp...

By Jharonne Martis. Retailers are getting ready to report Q1 2020 earnings. As they navigate through uncharted territory, many are withdrawing their earnings guidance. The coronavirus pandemic has also prolonged retail store closures all over the world. However, some U.S. states are reopen...

Originally published on April 14, 2020 By Robert Hughes Weekly retail same-store sales data from Johnson Redbook reflect the collapse in retail spending as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. For the week ending April 11, the Redbook same-store sales index tumbled 8.3 percent from the p...