RHS News and Press, Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Consumer Staples From 10/13/20

Among the largest names in retail, as represented by the MVIS U.S. Listed Retail 25 Index, the differences between winners and losers this year is dramatic. The difference separating many of the names into winners and losers is their ability to leverage not only ecommerce, but all cha...

Retail sales climbed back to record levels in June and continued to grow in July and August - despite painful levels of unemployment and income loss. But the good times will not last much longer: The massive government income support programs that funded consumer spending are ending, ...

By Jill Mislinski Note : With the release of August Retail Sales and the Consumer Price Index, we've updated this commentary to include the latest Real Retail Sales. Official recession calls are the responsibility of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee, which is understandably ...

Ecommerce retail sales jumped 44% in the second quarter 2020, compared to a year earlier, to $201 billion, not seasonally adjusted, according to the Commerce Department Tuesday. On a seasonally adjusted basis, ecommerce sales hit $211 billion. In dollar terms, the jump of $62 billion compare...

Q2 E-Commerce Retail Sales : +31.8 % Q/Q vs. +2.4%  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, News on ETFs Read more ...

By Jill Mislinski The Census Bureau's Advance Retail Sales Report for June was released this morning. Headline sales came in at 7.5% month-over-month to one decimal and was above the Investing.com forecast of 5.0%. Core sales (ex Autos) came in at 7.31% MoM (to two decimals). Here is the...

By Robert Hughes Retail sales and food services spending posted another strong gain in June, rising 7.5 percent from the prior month following an 18.2 percent record surge in May and two devastating declines in March and April. The gains likely reflected the continued easing of restriction...

76% of Americans plan to celebrate Independence Day this year, down from 86% in 2019, as concerns run high over gathering in large groups or attending public events due to the coronavirus pandemic. More news on: Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF, Consumer Discretionary Select Sector ...

The big worry Or rather the small worry for I was really very sure indeed it wasn't going to happen. Anyway, to get to the predictions on an L shaped recovery - one where we don't bounce back at all - it was necessary that consumers just didn't go out and start spending their money when the ...

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...