RCD News and Press, Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Consumer Discretionary

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...

2023-06-21 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 06:24:36 ET Summary The consumer discretionary sector is slightly overvalued relative to 11-year averages. Auto and components are massively overvalued. Other subsectors are close to their historical baseline in value and quality. VCR: an alternative to XLY. ...

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...

2023-05-22 17:22:00 ET Summary Data and statements put out by U.S. consumer companies during the Q1 earnings season teach us that consumption trends are very category-specific. Volumes have softened in some branded, staple products, but in general, elasticity has been better than ...

2023-05-21 08:41:28 ET Summary RCD, an equally-weighted discretionary offering, has underperformed its cap-weighted counterpart over the long term and short term. Conditions in the industry don’t look comforting. High-beta plays could remain vulnerable in this environme...

2023-05-18 13:48:12 ET Summary Two subsectors look good regarding fundamental metrics: durables/apparel and consumer services. The most overvalued one is auto and components. The equal-weight fund Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Consumer Discretionary ETF has outperform...