RHS News and Press, Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Consumer Staples From 01/18/21

Consumer spending fell 0.4% in November, its first drop since the April when the Coronacrisis was about at its worst. Bankruptcies of major US companies scaled old heights in December to finally hit their 2011 levels with 16 major companies filing in December. Job losses jumped fo...

The economic recovery that arises from COVID vaccination will bring relief to some retailers, but what about those whose sales grew during the pandemic? Will they enjoy permanently higher sales, or return to normal, or will they learn that their 2020 sales gains were simply borrowing ...

U.S. retailers are getting ready to report Q3 2020 earnings. The Refinitiv U.S. Retail and Restaurant Q3 earnings index is expected to decline by -13.8%. When looking at the earnings growth rates for Q3 for the 206 retailers tracked by Refinitiv, the Leisure Products and Internet ...

The coronavirus pandemic continues to restrain normal activities, including traditional Halloween events, such as trick or treating and costume parties. As a result, retailers are feeling the pinch of a very scary Halloween season. The National Retail Federation says that total Ha...

SPDR S&P is facing cross-currents nowadays. Trying to predict the future is a loser's game, investors should rather focus on analyzing market conditions and adapting to them. When consumer discretionary stocks are outperforming consumer staples stocks, this is typically bullis...

With the release of September Retail Sales and the Consumer Price Index, we've updated this commentary to include the latest Real Retail Sales. Month-over-month nominal sales in September increased by 1.91%. Real Retail Sales, calculated with the seasonally adjusted Consumer Price...

Retail sales and food-services spending posted a strong gain in September. The September gain was the fifth in a row. Core retail sales, which exclude motor vehicles and gasoline retailers, posted a 1.5 percent gain for the month. Unit vehicle sales, reported earlier in the mo...

Industrial production has a 100-year-plus record of measuring the production side of the economy. Similarly, retail sales have a 70-year-plus record of measuring the consumption side of the economy. In September, both surprised, as production failed to confirm leading indicators a...

US retail sales are incredibly strong, rising 1.9% month-on-month versus 0.8% consensus. Strength was broad based with 12 out of 13 categories reporting a rise. Nonetheless, we shouldn't take too much away from what was a very good report, which saw sporting goods up 5.7%, health ...

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...