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86% of Americans plan to observe Independence Day this year and are expected to spend $6.7B on food for cookouts, barbecues and picnics, according to the National Retail Federation. More news on: Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF, Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF, Vang...

By Robert Hughes Retail sales and food services rose 0.5 percent in May, following an upwardly revised 0.3 percent gain in April. The May increase was the third rise in a row and fourth in the last five months. Over the past year, they are up 3.2 percent (see chart). Retail sales excluding...

Retail Sales rose just 3.46% year-over-year (unadjusted) in May 2019. The estimate for April was revised substantially higher, now suggesting growth of 5.6%. Altogether, however, consumer spending continues to be unusually weak. How unusual. The 6-month average, a better gauge of growth condit...

By Jill Mislinski The Census Bureau's Advance Retail Sales Report for May was released June 14 morning. Headline sales came in at 0.55% month-over-month to one decimal and was worse than the Investing.com forecast of 0.7%. Core sales (ex Autos) came in at 0.50% MoM (to two decimals). Her...

The latest rise in the stock market has been helped along by safety stocks such as utilities, consumer staples and real estate, a reversal from earlier this year when cyclical sectors tied to the health of the economy pushed U.S. stock indexes to fresh records. More news on: Vanguard Rea...

By Jharonne Martis U.S. retailers are reporting Q1 2019 earning, and are already warning about tariffs in a possible U.S.-China trade war. Macy's ([[M]]) called it "a dynamic situation," right at the beginning of its earnings call. The tariffs enacted in 2018 were already baked into Macy's...

A better way to be defensive. See the chart below? It graphs the spread between the 10-year Treasury note rate versus the S&P 500 dividend yield and the S&P 500 Index itself. You'll note how the two metrics have moved in sync since 2014. Until this year, that is. In March, the yield ...

Nothing will ever compare to China's New Year Golden Week holiday for challenging economic statistics. Since the celebrations are not affixed to a specific point on the calendar, floating around back and forth some years between January and February, it makes making comparisons of those months...

In a way, the government shutdown couldn't have come at a more opportune moment. As workers all throughout the sprawling bureaucracy were furloughed, markets had run into chaos. Even the seemingly invincible stock market was pummeled, a technical bear market emerged on Wall Street as people be...

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...