RHS News and Press, Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Consumer Staples From 05/24/23

2023-05-24 00:03:00 ET Summary The shock waves of scarcity have swept across the world, from empty shelves in supermarkets to dwindling natural resources, creating a stark reality that we've begun to call the era of "Peak Everything." Our energy landscape is a case in point, as en...

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 ...

2023-05-18 16:38:57 ET Summary All consumer staples subsectors have either a bad value score, or a bad quality score, or both. Personal care is the most overvalued subsector, and tobacco is the worst-ranked regarding quality. Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Consumer Sta...

2023-05-17 02:20:00 ET Summary Total retail sales, seasonally adjusted, rose 0.4% in April from March, and 1.6% from a year ago. Gasoline prices have plunged by over 12% from a year ago, even as the price ticked up in April from March. The food CPI dropped for the second month...

2023-05-17 01:40:00 ET Summary We got two big data points on May 16th on the economy and both pointed to sluggish trends in growth. Retail sales and industrial production have a strong correlation with weak economic growth and both came in unusually weak last month. Industrial...

2023-05-16 14:35:00 ET Summary Both the Consumer Price Index and Producer Price Index data for April confirmed that the strong but lumpy disinflationary trend continues. The US is now at a point where the Fed funds rate exceeds inflation. Historically that has signaled the end of ...

2023-05-15 02:00:00 ET Summary As the economy begins to accelerate, value companies begin to outperform. The market continued to favor many of the more value-oriented or economically sensitive sectors of the market. The financial sector fell to the bottom of returns as balance...

2023-04-25 12:14:21 ET Exchange traded funds focused on the Consumer Staples sector have tracked higher since the start of 2023, with some of the most prominent names in the category climbing to 4-month trading highs. Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund ( NYSEARCA: XLP ) an...

2023-04-21 16:28:00 ET Summary Yesterday’s release of the Leading Economic Index from the Conference Board appears to settle the matter in favor of recession, but real-time analysis isn’t as clear-cut as this indicator suggests. The consultancy forecasts “econ...

2023-04-17 12:59:28 ET Summary This is the second most overvalued GICS sector. No subsector looks attractive. The most overvalued one is personal care products. Fidelity® MSCI Consumer Staples Index ETF is an alternative to Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fu...