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By Robert Hughes Retail sales and food services spending fell 0.2 percent in February following a 0.7 percent gain in January. Excluding the volatile auto and energy categories, core retail sales and food services were down 0.6 percent in February after a gain of 1.7 percent in January. Ov...

Q4 E-Commerce Retail Sales : +2.0% Q/Q vs. +2.6% (revised) in Q3. 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, Consumer stocks news, News on ETFs Read more ...

On this episode of the Cocktail Investing Podcast, we focus on the growing headwind for the economy and retail that is associated with our Middle-Class Squeeze investing theme. Consumers, especially those associated with our Aging of the Population investing theme, have racked up record...

Q3 E-Commerce Retail Sales : +3.1% Q/Q vs. +3.1% (unrevised) in Q2. 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, Consumer stocks news, News on ETFs Read more ...

By Jill Mislinski The Census Bureau's Advance Retail Sales Report for December was released on Friday. Headline sales came in at -1.2% month-over-month to one decimal and were worse than Investing.com's forecast of 0.1%. Core sales (ex Autos) came in at -1.81% MoM (to two decimals). "Dat...

On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Chief Investment Strategist Erik Ristuben, and Rob Cittadini, director, Americas institutional, discussed slumping U.S. retail sales, stalled economic growth in Germany, and the latest numbers from fourth-quarter earnings season. Disappoi...

The unexpected drop in retail sales in December has raised uncertainty about the upcoming report on fourth-quarter gross domestic product ((GDP)). Prior to yesterday's update on consumer spending for the final month of 2018, most estimates of the Q4 economic activity reflected moderate growt...

Ignore Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Those are merely an appetizer, an intentional preamble to whet the appetite of hungry consumers looking to splurge. The real action comes in December. People look, some buy, after Thanksgiving, but as anyone counts down the actual twelve days of Christmas ...

By Robert Hughes Retail sales and food services spending fell 1.2 percent in December following a 0.1 percent gain in November. Excluding the volatile auto and energy categories, core retail sales and food services were down 1.4 percent in December after a gain of 0.5 percent in November. ...

Retail sales appear to have been pulled forward into November from December by a higher mix of early holiday shopping. 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...